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LOST and FOUND To reveal the priceless value of salvation through Jesus Christ by examining the parables of what is found for the first time and what is lost and diligently sought again, leading believers to a deeper understanding of repentance, transformation, and the fruit that confirms a genuine relationship with God. < Back LOST and FOUND Minister Lisa Kane January 9, 2026 Objective: To reveal the priceless value of salvation through Jesus Christ by examining the parables of what is found for the first time and what is lost and diligently sought again, leading believers to a deeper understanding of repentance, transformation, and the fruit that confirms a genuine relationship with God. Synopsis: In Lost and Found, we explore two powerful teachings of Jesus that unveil fresh revelation about salvation and its value. The parable of the hidden treasure and the pearl of great price reveals the joy and life-altering response of one who finds salvation—a gift so priceless that nothing compares. In contrast, the parable of the lost coin illustrates a believer who once possessed something of great value, recognized it was missing, and took intentional action to seek until it was restored. Together, these parables address the often-debated question of salvation—whether it can be lost or is eternally secure—by shifting the focus from theological arguments to the heart posture of the believer. Salvation is not proven by outward actions or religious performance, but by a transformed heart rooted in love, repentance, and the fruit of the Spirit. Through Scripture, we are reminded that true salvation results in change, produces fruit, and is safeguarded by Christ Himself, who promised He would not lose even one. This teaching encourages believers to understand the immeasurable worth of God’s free gift, to guard it with intentionality, and to seek Him wholeheartedly whenever distance is felt. Lost and Found calls us to pray, to walk in sanctification, and to live with gratitude for the treasure of salvation—once discovered, never taken lightly, and always worth pursuing with all our heart. Inspired Teaching: There are three parables in the Bible that I see a new fresh revelation in them. The first parable is regarding the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 13:44-46 NKJV 44 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid; and for joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. 45 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls, 46 who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it. The second parable is losing something and finding it later. This concept also applies to a shepherd losing one sheep and goes after that one sheep leaving the 99 behind. And it also applies to the prodigal son. All found in Luke 15. For this teaching, we will use the lost coin and finding it later after seeking it parable. Luke 15:8-10 NKJV 8 “Or what woman, having ten silver [c]coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it? 9 And when she has found it, she calls her friends and neighbors together, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the piece which I lost!’ 10 Likewise, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.” In the first parable, where the kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field that is found, is ‘salvation. Someone found something they didn’t have before and it’s priceless. Salvation is priceless and it is a gift from God. When a person finds salvation, they find a true treasure and they never want to give up that treasure. In fact, they usually make changes, such as selling all he has and buying that field, as the parable put it so eloquently. In the second parable, the woman had ten silver coins, and they have value to them. Note, she already has them. It’s not something she found. She can represent a Christian who lost something of value that he or she had. Notice what she does, she lost it and noticed she lost it. She took the initiative to find and it took some effort. She needed light, and she moved everything in her house, swept the house, found this value. She sought the Lord. She, a Christian representation ‘sought’ the Lord, and she found Him again. There are big theological debates in today’s Christian world that say you can lose your salvation versus once saved, always saved. The above parables talk about this topic and present it very simply. You have someone who found salvation, and their life changed. You have someone who lost something of value, and changed their life to find it again. Both deal with salvation. One who didn’t know, and one who knew the worth but lost it somehow. Notice, we don’t know how the coin was lost. Isn’t that the way with anything? We don’t know how the other sock went missing but it happens. But here’s the thing, when we know it’s valuable, we take care of it and place in a position in our life so that we know where it is and that it is safe. This comes down to having knowledge of the value of salvation. Not all know the value of salvation. Romans 6:23 NKJV 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the [a]gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 5:6-9 NKJV 6 For when we were still without strength, [d]in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. Once we understand the knowledge of His free gift, we walk in sanctification, saved, and then in justification because it is His blood that saves us from His wrath that is still coming. So, then I ponder this, was a person, who ‘lost’ their salvation really saved in the first place? Let’s remember a very important point here, we’re not God. So, if we ‘look’ or ‘judge’ a person on their actions, going to church, preaching behind the pulpit, praying for people, laying hands on those who need it, are they saved by those actions? Remember 1 Corinthians 13:1 NKJV Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. They are not. They are only saved when they confess as Romans 10:9 tells us: 9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. And after making that confession of prophecy over their lives, they realize the value of what they have, and the love of God transforms their heart. And the first thing a person saved wants to do is ‘change’ their life around to put God first in their lives. How can we see if someone is saved or not? You will know them by their fruit. Galatians 5:22-23 NKJV 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 [a]gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. If we see a preacher, theologian, or anyone who seem to be in the Word but are not demonstrating love and forgiveness, this should be a red flag to you. But don’t condemn them. Pray for them as Jesus prayed for us in John 17. Be of good cheer, He will not lose one. John 17:9-19 NKJV 9 “I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours. 10 And all Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine, and I am glorified in them. 11 Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep[d] through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are. 12 While I was with them [e]in the world, I kept them in [f]Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept; and none of them is [g]lost except the son of [h]perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. 13 But now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves. 14 I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 15 I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify[i] them by Your truth. Your word is truth. 18 As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth. We have the Word of Jesus Himself, prophecy over us that He will not lose any of us. Join Him in prayer. Pray this prayer over everyone, whether you think they are living for Christ or not. This is the prophecy prayer that will keep us. It will be the treasure we find, and take care not to misplace or lose. And it will be the motivation for us to realize that we have something of value, His salvation that we will always seek when we felt or believed it was lost. Previous Next Home

I HAVE CHOSEN The objective of this teaching is to reveal the power and responsibility of choice as given by God, showing that every believer has been granted the freedom to choose the way of truth or the way of deception. By examining Scripture, it emphasizes how our decisions open doors that affect our spiritual condition, eternal destiny, and daily walk with Christ. The lesson seeks to guide believers toward consistently choosing God’s truth, walking in His statutes, and clinging to the covering of Jesus Christ for strength, holiness, and victory. I HAVE CHOSEN Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: The objective of this teaching is to reveal the power and responsibility of choice as given by God, showing that every believer has been granted the freedom to choose the way of truth or the way of deception. By examining Scripture, it emphasizes how our decisions open doors that affect our spiritual condition, eternal destiny, and daily walk with Christ. The lesson seeks to guide believers toward consistently choosing God’s truth, walking in His statutes, and clinging to the covering of Jesus Christ for strength, holiness, and victory. Synopsis: In I Have Chosen, Pastor Marcos Marrero teaches from Psalm 119:30, highlighting the radical gift of choice that God has given to humanity since the beginning of creation. While history and nations often seek to strip people of their freedom, God created man in His image with the ability to choose, first demonstrated in Adam’s choice in the Garden. Though Adam failed, God’s plan of redemption through Christ offers believers the covering of His righteousness and the continual opportunity to walk in truth. The message underscores that being born again does not remove the daily need to choose. As long as we live in mortal bodies, we face temptations and consequences from wrong decisions. Yet God, who has already chosen to love us and provide salvation through Christ’s blood, calls us to walk in the light and open the right doors of obedience and fellowship. Using Psalm 119:25–32, Pastor Marrero draws parallels between choices and doors, teaching that opening our hearts to Christ leads to life, strength, and freedom, while wrong choices open doors to destruction. The psalmist’s prayers—seeking revival, understanding, truth, and strength—become a model for believers to cling to God’s testimonies and run in the path of His commandments. The lesson concludes with a call to embrace God’s way of truth wholeheartedly, knowing that He enlarges our hearts to receive His wisdom and grace. Ultimately, the believer’s life is shaped not by the world’s restrictions, but by the eternal liberty of choosing Christ daily. Inspired Teaching: Psalm 119:30 “I have chosen the way of truth; Your judgments I have laid before me.” Choice is one of the most, if not the most radical concept that has ever been introduced to mankind. I know that many of us here in the west take this concept of choice for granted sometimes. But if we take a sober look at the history of mankind, we will come to the conclusion that the majority of humanity never had much of a choice as far as to how they wanted to conduct their lives. Even today, there are many that are born in nations that refuse to give them a choice, be it freedom of movement, freedom of religion, or even, economic freedom. If you are born today into a religion that proclaims that to depart from such religion is a crime that is punishable by death, you clearly do not have much of a religious choice, that is, if you want to go on living. You would be surprise to know how many nations today forbid the right of their citizens to choose which God they want to worship. And if you are a Christian in certain parts of Iraq today, you will be forced to renounce Christ and convert to Islam, and if not, you will die, even if your family had lived in those areas as Christians for hundreds of years. That is the history of humanity in a nut shell, seems like there is always somebody who thinks that he knows what is better for everybody else, and for some reason they are the ones that end up with the power to lord it over everybody else. From a biblical perspective let us take a look as to where does the right to choose originate from. Genesis 2:16-17 “And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, ‘Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.’” Even before Eve was created, the first man, who was created in the image of God, was given a choice; everything was made available to him except one, for he was forbidden to partake of the tree of dead. God is sovereign, that means that He does whatever He chooses to do. Adam was created in the image of God, so he was made a sovereign creature. The difference between Adam and God, is that God is Good, so that God can never choose to do wrong, however, even though Adam was made sovereign, he was also naked, that means that he had not yet been clothed with God’s eternal goodness and immortality, since he had not yet partaken of the tree of life, therefore he is forbidden to partake of that which can kill him. But if Adam partakes of the tree of life first, he makes the tree of death obsolete. For the tree of life offers to cover Adam with God’s goodness and immortality. Which by the way is what Jesus covers us with. Romans 13:12, 14 “The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on (clothe ourselves with) the armor of light...But put on (cover ourselves with) the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.” This is why when we are born again, that is Jesus becomes the covering for our nakedness, God considers us good and without sin. 1 John 3:9 “Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed (Jesus our covering) remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.” That is because as far as God is concerned, when we came before His throne and confessed our sins before Him, He killed us, for the soul that sins shall surely die. But since we came before His throne in the name of Jesus, the death of Jesus on the cross is imputed to us, and our sins are forgiven, and Jesus covers us with His goodness and His eternal life. But even after we become born again, we still have to make choices, for as long as we remain in our mortal bodies that we inherited from Adam, we will always be plagued by our propensity to sin. 1 John 1:8 “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” So that from the spiritual perspective God only sees the atoning blood of Jesus when He looks at us, for His seed, God’s Son, remains in us, therefore we cannot sin. But from the physical perspective we still have to make choices, and wrong choices bring bad consequences. 1 John 1:7 “But if we walk in the light (here is our choice) as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.” So that as born-again believers, the choices that we make will determine what our condition will be in any given circumstance. God already made His choice; He chose to love us, for He is love. He provided for us the cleansing agent, which is the blood of Jesus. Now it is up to us to either walk in the light, which is the revelation of His salvation to us, or we can choose to follow after the desires of our flesh, and fall into the other choice that God has made for those who reject His free offer of grace and salvation. Jeremiah 34:17 “Therefore thus says the Lord: ‘You have not obeyed Me in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother and everyone to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim liberty to you,’ says the Lord— ‘to the sword, to pestilence, and to famine! And I will deliver you to trouble among all the kingdoms of the earth.’” Isn’t it amazing that while the world is seeking to enslave men, and to deprive them of choice, and to keep them captive, God is in the business of freedom of choice. Even when enlightened men, those who should know better, for they have tasted of the freedom that comes from knowing God—turn their backs on God’s grace and love—it is their choice that God gives them the freedom to fall into, no matter how bad their choices are for them. In our opening text, the eight verses of Psalm 119, verses 25–32, correspond with the Hebrew letter Daleth, which means door. A door is a place of entrance, no one can be born again unless he first opens the door of his heart to let the Lord in. Revelation 3:20 “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with me.” So that the choices that we make open doors through which we will have to transverse, whether we like it or not, so that it becomes very important that we understand where the doors lead that we open by the choices that we make. Psalm 119:25 “My soul clings to the dust; Revive me according to Your word.” We open the door to our Lord’s salvation when we come to the realization that we cannot save ourselves. My soul clings to the dust, so we seek the salvation that is prescribed in God’s Word. How does God Word say that we are to be saved? Psalm 119:26 “I have declare my ways (confessed my sins), and You answered me (You saved me); teach me Your statutes.” Why do we need to learn His statutes? Because our choices open doors, and now that we are saved we do not want to open doors that are not in our best interest. We want to make choices that align with the plans that He has for our lives. Revelation 3:7 “And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write, ‘These things says He who is holy, He who is true, He who has the key of David, He who opens and no one shuts, and shuts and no one opens.’” We want the doors that the Lord opens to remain open, and we want the doors that the Lord closes to remain close. In order for that to happen we need to learn His statutes and make the choices that they prescribe. Psalm 119:27 “Make me understand the way of Your precepts; so shall I meditate on Your wonderful works.” Understanding is what we are trying to gain from this lesson. If we can be made vividly aware of the ill consequences of unwise choices, we would think twice before we make them. Do we really want liberty to fall to the sword, to pestilence, and to famine? I say that is not a liberty that I want. O Lord, please close that door and keep me as far away from it as possible! We can only pray that prayer with real faith if we are made aware, that is, we understand the perils that those wrong choices can bring into our lives. Psalm 119:28 “My soul melts from heaviness; strengthen me according to You word.” Imagine that! It seems like the psalmist knew a thing or two about wrong choices, his words seem to cry out, not my will O Lord, not my will, but according to Your Word! Psalm 119:29 “Remove from me the way of lying, and grant me Your law graciously.” A lie is always the perversion of truth. Since we desire the truth of His Word, we need to stay focus on His law, or Word of grace. It is not by works that we have done, but by His grace that we are saved! Psalm 119:31 “I cling to Your testimonies; O Lord, do not put me to shame!” Once the right choice was made in verse 30: I have chosen the way of truth, now we cling to His promised salvation, and as we do, we will not be put to shame. Psalm 119:32 “I will run the course of Your commandments, for You shall enlarge my heart.” What a beautiful promise we conclude with, a heart that is big enough to receive tremendous enlightenment, and yet, a heart that is able to remain humble and accessible to God at all times. I want to be like that! Don’t you? Previous Next Home

LACKING Equip believers to walk in “the work of faith with power” (2 Thes 1:11) by inviting God’s light into hidden places of the heart, entering a true covenant with Him, and yielding to His cleansing so His glory can dwell within and flow outward for deliverance and awakening. LACKING Pastor Marcos Marrero June 17, 2024 Objective: Equip believers to walk in “the work of faith with power” (2 Thes 1:11) by inviting God’s light into hidden places of the heart, entering a true covenant with Him, and yielding to His cleansing so His glory can dwell within and flow outward for deliverance and awakening. Synopsis: The message opens with authoritative prayer over the city—declaring Jesus’ Lordship and the end of demonic rule—and sets the theme: faith that truly works in power. From 2 Thessalonians 1:11, believers are called to be found worthy through faith that moves mountains—not by hype, but by knowing God and refusing inner doubt. Daniel 2:22 shows why mountains don’t move: divided hearts hide “deep and secret things” where doubt lives. God, who is light, reveals these dark places when invited. Jeremiah 33:3 issues the invitation: “Call to Me”—God alone can retrieve what we cannot, including early wounds, rejections, and generational injuries that still sabotage trust. Entering covenant (pictured in Abraham’s sacrifices) means letting the Word cut between spirit and soul (Heb 4:12), guarding the promise from “birds of prey,” and staying through the “dreadful darkness” until God’s fire passes through and gifts faith. Ezekiel 44:4 portrays the result: once the inner gate is opened and cleansed, the glory of the Lord fills the temple—we are that temple. Job’s journey models deliverance by stripping and restoration; his daughters’ names picture the process: the Dove (Spirit) comes, the bark is stripped, then inner strength and beauty are bestowed (Job 42). This requires the cross: laying down Adam’s old coverings so we’re clothed with Christ’s glory, which intimidates darkness and empowers ministry. Practical applications include: ask God to reveal unsearchable things; forgive ancestral/offending voices; submit to the Spirit’s surgical work; persevere through fire; and live from the intimacy Jesus offers (Rev 3:20). The warning from John 6:66—turning back when the word feels “too hard”—is answered by a call to courageous surrender. The message closes by blessing the congregation and prophesying a fountain of living water rising in the house, flowing to the city with end-time deliverance and awakening. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Thank you Jesus. Hallelujah. Amen. Father in heaven in Jesus name we take authority right now. Father God, your word declares that we overcame Satan by the blood of the lamb and by the word of our testimony. And we testify, Father God, that we have authority in the name of Jesus. And Father, and that authority that Jesus has been given to us is to trample on the snakes and the scorpions, Father God, and that nothing shall by any mean harm us. So we declare that authority to the uh city of Wington tonight, Father God, and as we proclaim the word of the Lord tonight. We declare to the principalities and powers, to every creeping thing that creepeth on this city, every demonic spirit, every foul bird of the air, we declare that Jesus Christ is Lord over the city of Wington. We declare that Jesus Christ is Lord over every uh single member of this church of this body. And father in the name of Jesus we also declare that your time has come to an end. Uh spirits of darkness that rule over this city. Your time has come to an end. We prophesy tonight in the name of Jesus that the door for the uh victorious deliverance ministry of the end time. The awakening, the trumpet calling out for the people to awake is being ready to be released, Father God. And we serve notice to all of the u uh ruling spirits of this area that your time has come to an end. for the Lord will drive you up by the power of his glory and majesty in Jesus name. Amen. Praise God. Open your Bible to uh 2 Thessalonians 1:11. And I want my my wife to read it from that translation that she has is better than than the NIV. And tonight's message is real simple. If you look at it, the scriptures are going to be 111 2222 3333 444556667778899. 2 Thessalonians 1:11. If my translation, the NIV doesn't do what u what it comes out. 2 Thessalonians 1:11. Yeah. Therefore, we also pray always for you that our Gods would count you worthy of this calling and fulfill all the good pleasures of his goodness and the work of faith and power. Okay? That you may be found worthy of God's calling. And what is God's calling? That you would would have the work of faith with power. Remember what Jesus says? He says, "If you speak to the mountain," he says, "Mountain, in the name of Jesus, lift yourself up and throw yourself into the sea." Every single one of us here would understand that that would be a work of faith with power. Because there wouldn't be no shovel or no tow truck or anything doing it. It would have to be God actually raising up the mountain and throwing it onto the sea. But you see, Jesus says, "If you doubt not in your heart, that which you're saying will come to pass, then that which you're saying will be done for you." In one of the Old Testament scriptures, the prayer is, "Lord, give me an undivided heart." We know the heart is talking about the spirit and the soul. We know that the spirit is willing, but the flesh, which is connected to the soul, is weak. So Paul is saying, I'm praying for those people in Wington that are going to believe the gospel that I'm preaching to the Gentiles 1970 years from now. I'm praying for you guys that God will say when he looks at you and women to there are some people that are worthy or of my calling. And how do we make oursel worthy of God calling? We have the work of faith with power. Now, obviously, we do not have the work of of faith with power right now. So, we're lacking something, and that's what we're going to talk about. So, we went from 2 Thessalonians 1:11. Now, we're going to go to Daniel 2:22. Daniel 2:22. And Rod, if you want to go ahead and read that one. The Lord's going to have us all participate tonight, I guess. Daniel 2:22. Daniel is towards the uh the end of Jeremiah. Just just go to the big prophecies, the first small after Jeremiah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and then Daniel. Lamentations and then Daniel. Ezekiel. I mean, after Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and then there. Don't they love when you put somebody on the spot like that? After Ezekiel, find Ezekiel. Jeremiah, I'm sorry. Yeah. Daniel 2:22. Okay. God reveals the deep and the secret things because he's light and the light is able to illuminate what's in the darkness. Now, if I say to the mountain, let's let's let's bring it down home. Let's say the mountain is not Paul's birdies or idol wild or or baker. Let's say the mountain is a difficulty that you have in your life. Let's say that the mountain is a problem that you have with relationships. Let's say that the mountain is your marriage, your spouse. Let's say that the mountain is your job. Let's say that the mountain is your Christian walk. You do have a desire to do what the word of God says, but you can't do it no matter how hard you try. So let's say that because of division within your heart, you have an undivided heart. Because of division within your heart, you can tell to the mountain in the name of Jesus, but it doesn't come to pass because there's doubt. You see, that's what darkness is. Darkness is doubt. You see, people believe that faith is somehow uh something that you conjure up or or something that you, you know, bring it up for some reason. That that is our our what we believe that faith is. But there's nothing mystic about faith. Faith is knowing something. You see, I know that when I put my keys in the car and I turn the keys, I know that it's going to start. You know how many parts are involved in actually getting the car to start? There's a whole bunch of parts. You have electrical, you have all kinds of things, but yet I don't worry about none of those things. I know that if I put the key on it, that that darn thing is going to start when I turn the key. So you see faith is knowing something and you're so sure. People people say let's use a biblical example this will be better. People think that Abraham somehow was such a superhuman that was able to believe. But the Bible says that God told Abraham, I want you to take your son and I want you to take him to a certain place. I'm going to take you and I want you to sacrifice him there for me. And when he brought him and he tied him up and he was about to sacrifice his son says that the angel of the Lord says Abraham Abraham and stopped him. And it says that at that time Abraham looked beyond the mountain where he was and he saw a ram that was God and the thickets. If you study that Abraham might have been drawn to the attention of a real ram because the ram was sacrificed in the place of Isaac. But he looked beyond the ram. If you if you read, it says he had a vision. And in that vision, he saw Jesus because that mountain where he was is the same mountain where the temple was later built. And it's the same mountain where later Jesus was crucified. So Abraham actually saw Jesus being crucified. You say, "Well, how do you know that?" Well, Jesus said to them, Abraham saw my day and rejoice on it. How did Abraham saw Jesus's day? He had a vision. He visualized in what he was doing with his son. He said, "God, you're not a god of human sacrifice. Those are those idols over there that require that. I don't understand. That's what faith is. I don't understand, but I'm going to follow what you say." And when he was willing to go all the way with God regardless of what it was, then a vision was given to him and he saw Jesus the lamb of God caught in the thicket in the cross. That was the faith that Abraham had. You said Moses, how do you know Moses had so much faith on everything he wrote? Hey, Moses stepped into the mountain with God and come out on the other side and he was in the mount of transfiguration with Jesus. Did you know that Moses was with Jesus on the mount of transfiguration? He said that the Jesus was so radiant in the mount of transfiguration that that he shone brighter than the noonday sun. And yet we see Moses 1500 years earlier come down the mountain with his face shining from being in the in the place of Jesus. So you see faith is not something that you huff and puff for. Faith is being taken by the spirit of God to the place of your victory. You see, faith is taking God taking you ahead of time. You may be going through the most difficult time right now. You may be tormented. You may be in darkness. But Daniel 2:22 says that God reveals. Let's read it again. It says uh he reveals deep and hidden things. He knows what lies in darkness and light dwells with him. You see, there are deep and hidden things in the darkness areas of our soul that keep us from speaking the word and having it come to pass because it have to do with doubt. Doubt comes in. But the Bible says if we understand that God 2 Thessalonians 1:11 that God wants to find me worthy of his calling and in order for me to be found worthy of God's calling, I need to have the work of faith with power. Paul's praying for us. Paul was praying for us. He says, "I'm praying that the work of faith with power will be in you." Well, I cannot have faith with power when there are things hidden within me that are in the darkness. That's what he's saying. You see, Moses had to be brought. Remember when when the cloud came to the mountains that appear, the people were so frightening and so trembling, the people said to Moses, "We cannot bear it. You go talk to God, Moses. will hide back over here away from the mountain. You come back and tell us what God's saying to you. So Moses had to step into the darkness. There was a dark, dreadful darkness that he had to step through before he was able to come into the top of the mountain. And who was in the top of the mountain? Jesus. 1500 years later, Jesus takes James, John, and and and the other disciple. He takes him up. I mean there Peter, James, and Joan. And he takes them up in there. And then all of a sudden, Elisha and uh Moses were there. And what does that tell you? That there's a place in God that transcend time and space. That is the place where faith dwells. You see in time and space right now, I may be sick. I may be under oppression. I may be bound. I may be having all of these problems in this present time and space. But in God, there is a place of time and space where I can go into. And everything that pertains to my life and my godlin is just already there. Jesus is there and Paul is there, I'm pretty sure, because he's the one that's praying for us in this in this thing. He's praying for it. They're there. And all I have to do, I have to allow the darkness that is within me to be dispelled by the light. He says he is light. When you invite God into the area of darkness, darkness please. Did you know that you can take go to the darkest darkest deepest cave take a little box with you while in this dark place you can't see nothing. open the uh the box and allow the darkness to get in there. Then seal the box completely and then bring it out. Then open it and the darkness is gone. But now you can go to the to the to the smallest place. You take a little light, a little candle. Okay? Take a little candle, put in a little box, hide it the tiniest, littlest light, and you can go to the darkest place on the deep of the earth and you open that little light and it will illuminate the whole thing. See, darkness could not comprehend or overcome the light. And we have to realize that there are darkness, areas of darkness in our soul that divide us, that separate us from faith that works. And so we see the problem. We see the problem and we cannot have faith to come into the solution. And God says, "But I want you to have faith that works. I want you to have power when you pray. I want to found you worthy. And without faith, it is impossible to please me, says God. So I need you to come into a place to where you allow me into the dark recesses of your soul. Did you know that Abraham uh was with God? God takes him out and said, "Look, Abraham, see that many stars? If you could count them, you can't, right?" Well, that's how many. See, Abraham didn't have children at that time. And God says, "That's how many descendants you're going to have." The Bible says that Abraham believed, and so God says, "You're righteous because you believe. And if you believe, you're saved. you're delivered. You're righteous. But then Abraham comes back in and says, "Okay, God, now how am I going to know that what you just promised me, what you just revealed to me, that I'm really going to get it?" You see, that's what faith does. Faith, God says, "I am the Lord that heals you and I'm sick. I need to say, "Oh, I'm healed." No, no, I don't say that because it's a lie. I'm not. I'm sick. I'm tormented. Whatever it is, what we say is, "Okay, Lord, you said that I am healed. Now I need to take the light of your word and I need to bring it to my time and space. How do I do that? How can I come into that? What does uh God said to Abraham? Take a three-year-old ram, a goat, and a lamb or or a a bull. Cut them in half. Take two birds. One one of the birds uh is a John fishing and the other one is a a dove. do that means term and deer. This is how God signs a covenant. And the young fleshing uh fleshling means that uh just just a little mustard seed of faith that we have. Those were not cut. Those were put on the end. But the the ram, the goat, uh uh the bull were cut in half and spread in between. And then he says that after Abraham did, you know what that symbolizes? spirit, soul and body being cut in half. You see the word meismos, the word uh Hebrews 4:12, the word of God is lifegiving energy, and it is able to divide a sunder between spirit and soul, between joints and marrows, and between your heart and the your thoughts and the attitudes of your heart. They had to be Abraham had to say, "God, I'm going to open myself up. I know that I've been hurt so many times in the past. I know that I've been disappointed so many times in the past. I know that I have so many promises that didn't come for me in the past. But God, I am willing to open myself up to your promise. I am willing to allow your light, Lord, to come into that area of darkness that is deep within me." You know what it says? that as soon as Abraham did that, the birds of prey came, the crawls and the buzzers came in to go and Abraham had to fight him away. You see, whenever you make a try to make a covenant with God, okay, God, you promise me, I believe, so you say I'm righteous, but I need to know how can I receive deliverance? How can I be set free, Lord? And God says, okay, open up your soul. As soon as you open up your soul, Satan is going to come in and he's going to try to get in there. He's going to try to steal. Jesus says, "My word is like the seed that falls by the road and by the different places and the enemy comes in and pecks at it, takes it away." So, you need to guard that word. Satan is going to say, "You're getting worse. You're getting worse. You're not a That's when you take that word and and you fight those buzzers off." And then all of a sudden a deep and dreadful darkness came. I think that's on Genesis 12 or 17. I think it's probably 12. But anyway, as you read on it, a deep and dreadful darkness comes over Abraham. And then in the midst of the deepest darkness to where he couldn't see anything, a fire pot appears out of the heaven and comes in and it goes right into the pieces. And you know what he was doing? It was consuming, putting everything back together. That's what the word meismos is. When it says the word of God is lifegiving energy that is able to divide, the same word appears on Hebrews 2:4 where it says and God by sign. So the Holy Spirit gave gift. The word metismos mean been cut apart so that God can gift you. Faith is a gift. Faith is a fruit of the spirit and faith is a gift. The faith that move mountain is a gift from God. And that gift can only be imparted into your heart when you're willing to allow the darkness of our heart. We're willing to allow to be cut open as if it were. God, I'm going to trust you with my heart. I know that every time I trusted in the past, I was hurt. I know that every time I open myself up, I was wounded. I know that every time that I done that, Lord, I've been kicked. But I'm going to trust you now because I I want to be found worthy. I want to have faith in my life. I want to have faith with power that works in me. So Lord, I am going to trust you. I'm going to enter into a covenant with you. I'm going to cut myself. I'm going to let your word cut me open. I'm going to let your word undress me. I'm going to let your word really expose everything that is within me. Lord, I'm going to open up myself to you because I want that light that Daniel 2:22 says. It says there that and light dwells with him. He knows what lies in darkness and light dwells with him. Okay. Our next scripture is 333. Maybe Fred, you can read this one. It's on uh uh let's see uh Jeremiah uh 33. Jeremiah 33:3. It's two books to the left of where we were. Yep. Praise God. Call me. Now you hear that. God says, "Call upon me." Now what we're were saying in Daniel 2:22, God knows what lies in the darkness. He knows what lies on the secret place. So now God is saying, "Call to me and I will answer you." And look what in my translation it says, "And I will tell you great and uncarchable things you do not know." That sounds like deliverance to me. That sounds like deliverance to me. I'm going to I call unto me. You know, in in the Bible, it tells us in the Old Testament and the New Testament, they that call upon the Lord shall be saved. And of course, the word saved means deliver, heal, restore. They that call upon the Lord shall be fixed. They that call upon the Lord shall be made new be will be made renewed. So what does Jeremiah say? Call upon me and I'm going to show you things about you that you have no idea. See, God is able to go into that place of darkness. God, did you know that God can go all the way to the womb? Did you know that when you were conceived, I think it's six weeks? Six weeks, we're already pumping our own blood and we're able to receive sense of things. Did you know that the first thing that you sense when you're in the womb, that's our world. The the womb is our world where we're conceived and we're actually developed. that when we come out, we come out with everything that we need put together. But the very first thing that we feel in the womb is whether we were rejected or accepted. The very first thing that we feel in the womb is whether there's love or whether there's rejection. The first thing that we feel in the womb is whether there are curses upon us because that's where the demons ride. If you were conceived out of wordlock, if you were conceived by lust, if you were conceived unwanted, you know, all of those things can go all the way to there. And did you know that it's amazing, especially now that I'm 59 years old, my recollections of when I was a kid get less and less and less. You know, when I was younger, I could remember a lot of my youth. I remember things, but it seems like it's like a computer just gets to the end and then you have to bump delete some things out so that you can still put new stuff on. And usually the stuff that you get rid of is stuff from when you went back there. But you know, those things that go way to the back affect my personality today. You see, if I've experienced disappointment in the past when God says to me, speak and you will have what you ask for. Ask me and whatever you ask for, I will give it to you. If I had disappointment in in my heart and it's hidden in the dark part of my heart when I speak, there's a part of me that say, no, it's not going to happen because you ask your dad when you were two years old, dad, can you pick me up? And that was too busy with something else. Says, "Not now, son." And he just puts you to the side. Dad put a a a cut, a little cut up in there to where dad is not always going to pick you up. And you see, and when you said, "Mom, can I have this?" And mom was too busy and ignored you and rejected you in some kind of way. You see, all of those things build up in there. And then when daddy God, you come to him and and you say, "I have a need." And and you're moved by the word. You hear Fred preaching and and you find one of the promises and you say, "Daddy God, I need this." Immediately, there's a part of you way in there that is in darkness that you don't know, that you don't remember that's going to say, "Oh, you're going to be rejected. Don't you remember when your dad said no? When your mom said no? When your teacher said you were stupid? Did you know that all those words stupid, moronum, uh uh all of the things that had to do with with what you were talking about uh arrested development, all of those words arrest or hinder your being developed. So that by the time we grow up, we may be mature on the outside, but our maturity, our spiritual maturity has been hindered so much that we're just like kids. We have no understanding. But yet God says, "Call me. Call on me and I will show you things that you cannot retrieve by your own natural power." You see, God is in the business of computers. I believe God is is great at computers. Our mind, you know, computers are our pattern after our minds. You know, they have retrieval system. If you want to be good at remembering things, you have to associate them with something. You associate things with different things. So you associate uh uh things just like a computer and you're able to click. Well, guess what? God has your secret code to your computer. And God is able to bring things up that you need to settle in your heart. And that can only happen when you're well willing to go into a covenant with God. See, a covenant with God is different than just believing God. It's different than serving God. Uh it it's just like having a boyfriend or a g girlfriend. It's different than being married to them. Okay? You can do everything that married people do, but you can walk out anytime. In marriage, you can't do that. Marriage is a covenant that is witness by witnesses and that is sention by God. You see, and so you need to understand in the spiritual realm that God is not going to go to bed with us as if it were going to the intimacy of the bedroom of our heart unless we mean business with him. And unfortunately, there's too much of that child of Christianity today. We want to date God and we want to do all the things, but we're not willing to go all the way with him. And to go all the way with God, you have to allow him to cut you deep inside. You have to say, "God, okay." And you know, one of my prayers is, "Oh Lord, I always asking for the fire of God." But I said, "Lord, please give me the strength to endure the fire because the fire is not fun, man. Fire is hard." But you know, it's amazing how God, see, God has different priorities that we have. He said, "My thoughts are not your thoughts and my ways are not your way." We might think that the worst thing in us is our tattoo or our earrings or our hairdo or stuff like that. God might say, "You know what? I want to start with this little thing that happened to you when you were three years old." And he'll bring that to my my wife had a dream just the other day just so real to her. Uh she has a a brother I'm an uncle, Uncle Bob. And then uh he's older than your mom, right? in this dream that she had her uncle Bob just had what his 70th or 50th wedding anniversary something a big 60th 60th wedding a big family reunion so he's getting close to go home uh to go with the Lord well the Lord showed her in a dream I mean she's never heard this or anything this just revelation from God that he said some words to her mom because her mom was a lot younger when her mom was either a teenager yeah when she was very young she was real young when she was teenager that's what I And she called her what? I don't know what he said, but there were words that hurt her real deeply. Hurt it real deep. Now, her mom is already dead and going with the Lord. But you see, those words had an effect not only on her mom, but it passed out to all of her generation forces and stuff like that. And then the cleansing that the Lord is doing, he says, "You need to deal with this thing that was never dealt with in your family." Can you imagine that? Forgive. Yeah. To forgive him. She has to speak the words to forgive her uncle Bob for what her uncle Bob did to her mother. Now see, we have no idea what all of that entails. But God says, "You girls are being affected by what Uncle Bob said to your mom 60, 40, 50 years ago, whatever it was." And yet God was able to say to my wife through a dream. He said, "You need to He took her there. God actually took her there and said, "You don't need to know the words. You don't need what's going on. You just know that what he did offended your mom and your mom probably never got over that. And that was a notch in her heart that was passed down to you guys. You didn't even know it's affecting you. But I'm working deliverance on you. So here, forgive Uncle Bob. Once Uncle Bob is forgiven, whatever demons was attached to that are gone. Not only that, Uncle Bob is released. He can go down to the grave whenever his time comes to go. He's he's released from that. See, that's how God works. God works like that. But God has to be asked. If we read again in in in Jeremiah 33:33, he says, "Call to me. Call to me. Call to me and I will answer you and I will tell you great and uncarchable things that you do not know." Unsearchable things. Unsearchable things to us. We cannot retrieve it. How can she retrieve something that she wasn't even there when this happened 50, 60 years ago? She wasn't even born yet. How can you? Well, God does. He knows your garbage. God knows your garbage. God reads your mail. God knows everything that's there. But God says, "Okay, call unto me." So, here we have 2 Thessalonians 1:11. God says, "I want you to have faith that works. I want I I I want you to be found worthy of my calling. I have a call upon your life." Remember, many are called, but few are chosen. Who are the ones that are chosen? The ones that have faith that works. It's that simple. Without faith, it's impossible to please God. So, your call, God wants you to be worthy of that calling. And in order for you to be worthy of that calling, you got to have faith that works. And in order for have to have faith that works, we need a heart that is not divided. We need an undivided heart. And in order to get an univarted undivided heart, you got to go to Daniel 2:22 and allow the God of light to come in into the place of darkness and to reveal those deep and secret things that are in there. And God is not going to come in there unless you call him to come in because Revelation 3:20 says, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock. And if anybody answers the door, opens the door, I will come in and I'm going to have fellowship. I'm going to sit and have dinner with you." See, back in those days, the more intimate thing that you could do with people was sitting at the table and having dinner with them. That's where the new covenant was made. That's where that's where the old covenant was made. People were supposed to gather and kill the lamb, put the blood. That's what the covenant was. So God is saying, "I want to be intimate with you. But you got to call me in. You have to invite me. And you have to be willing to allow me to cut you because you see faith is not going to work for you. You're not going to have no power in your faith unless I shine my light in your heart." Hebrews uh 20:27, the spirit of the man is the candle of the Lord searching all all the inward parts of the belly or the heart. This is where the different compartment that are in there. Listen, my friend, when you tell God, Lord, I want to expose whatever is in me that is not right, it's not going to be pretty. Okay? If you ever go into a closet that hasn't been open for a long time, going to be a lot of garbage there. Had a dream not that long ago going through this deliverance process that I've been going. It was um after I preach here two weeks ago about Leviathan and I was going through a bucket. I was cleaning and it was in my house back in Cuba, my my patio. And in this bucket there was all kinds of different cans of paint that were all and I was taking them and throwing them away. And then there was one that was still full that could be used and I saved that. And when I got to the bottom there was a can that had split open somehow and there was paint all over thick paint all the bottom. In other words, it was a mess and it was a mess to get into that. And then all of a sudden as I got into that I looked at the floor and right there was mud. the bottom of the thing became mud and all of a sudden in that mud there was the form of some kind of an animal. I said, "Man," because I was standing there and so I picked up a root that was in there and I poked the thing and it was this big giant alligator and I had been sitting there this whole time next to this alligator. You see, I was digging deep into my my pelite back into where Cuba was. That's what that symbolized. And you know what the thing I had in my hand? It was a root. It was a root partially like a bamboo root type of thing. And it had three stems on it. One was longer. That's what I poked the thing with. I got up and I read 11 uh Isaiah 11:1 where it says the root of Jesse, the root of Jesse, which is Jesus. The branch. He says the branch. The root of Jesse. That's what I poked this alligator with. This is a Leviathan that was hidden inside of me. This is part of my past that was in the mud that was there. And then I run to the house to get my wife and say, "Honey, you can't believe it. The place where we've been sitting, I'm ministering all this time. There's this big thing that was buried there. And by the time I get back with that root in my hand to get the thing, it was nothing but clear water. All the mud had clear out. And there was this alligator. You know, alligator is is another uh translation for Leviathan. Is the Lord showing me that if you go into a covenant, you begin to dig deep into the things that are there, the fountain. Zechariah says, "In that day, I will open up a fountain for for the cleansing from sin." That's what Jesus has done for us. He He is our fountain. In Isaiah said, "All of my fountains are in you, Lord." And he has given us the weapon. The weapon is the root of Jesse. And in that one, it talks about the the manifold wisdom of God, the seven spirit, the wisdom, the knowledge, the power. So you see, there's a step that I'm trying to put here. If we need it, we need the work of faith with power so that we can be found worthy, then we need to allow the God of light to come into our soul and reveal those deep hidden things. And it's not going to happen unless we ask God to give us those things that are unsearchable to us, but that God is able to expose. Now, let's go to 444. I don't know this. I I wrote this a week ago and I haven't done anything, but the Lord says chair and and don't even prepare. Just look him up. Ezekiel 44:4. Who wants to read that? Rich, can you do it over there? Ezekiel 44:4. This is so neat. The Lord gave me this revelation when I was laying down and I just went and look for scriptures and look for the numbers. 3:44. Do you get it? Do you get it? We are the temple. We're the temple of God. Where's the temple of the Holy Spirit? And what does 4:44 says? God brought me in through a gate. He brought me in through a door. And when I got there, the glory of the Lord came into the temple. You You got to see this. The glory of the Lord came after the light was brought into the darkness. After we ask the Lord to bring revelation, after we ask the Lord to expose what was in darkness, after we asked the Lord, Lord, I want you to cut me. I want to enter a co I want to enter into a covenant with you. I want you, Lord, to expose what to expose whatever is in me that will hinder the work of faith with power. I don't want to have a divided heart, Lord. I want your God to your word to cut me, to do the mismo, to expose, to heal, to strip me so that I can then have your glory. See, the Holy Spirit is not going to come when there's filth in there. You know, you you I I did a house for a doctor once. He was German, but he made his money in Venezuela. He developed a drug company or whatever and this guy made tons and tons of money and his wife this was many many years ago. She smoked like a like a shim. I mean continuous. She had this long long cigarette. She I don't know if they were called Virginia Slims or whatever. The cigarettes were like tw Home Previous Next

OBEYING GOD AND CONSEQUENCES To emphasize the importance of complete obedience to God’s Word and His commandments, showing that partial obedience is still disobedience, and that rejecting God’s instructions leads to severe and sometimes irreversible consequences. This lesson calls believers to humility, true repentance, and wholehearted submission to the Lord’s voice, reminding us that obedience is better than sacrifice. OBEYING GOD AND CONSEQUENCES Minister Lisa Kane March 18, 2021 Objective: To emphasize the importance of complete obedience to God’s Word and His commandments, showing that partial obedience is still disobedience, and that rejecting God’s instructions leads to severe and sometimes irreversible consequences. This lesson calls believers to humility, true repentance, and wholehearted submission to the Lord’s voice, reminding us that obedience is better than sacrifice. Synopsis: In 1 Samuel 15, King Saul is commanded by God through the prophet Samuel to utterly destroy the Amalekites as a judgment for their past rebellion against Israel. Instead of fully obeying, Saul spares King Agag and keeps the best of the livestock, justifying his disobedience as an act of sacrifice to God. When confronted, Saul shifts blame to the people and offers excuses rather than true repentance. Samuel rebukes him with the piercing truth: “To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed than the fat of rams.” Because of Saul’s rebellion and stubbornness, God rejects him as king, and the kingdom is torn away from him. The lesson illustrates how disobedience, even when disguised as religious intention, is rebellion against God and carries serious consequences. Saul’s insincere repentance—still laced with excuses—further exposes his unwillingness to take responsibility, contrasting with the sincere humility God desires from His people. The account warns us that rebellion is like witchcraft and stubbornness is like idolatry, showing how dangerous it is to reject God’s Word. Believers today must understand that God’s commandments are not optional. Even when His instructions are difficult or beyond our understanding, obedience is required. Partial obedience is still sin. Yet God’s mercy is available through sincere repentance and confession in Christ (Romans 10:9-10). The call is to turn away from rebellion, embrace God’s Word as the ultimate authority, and walk in obedience so that His blessings, protection, and presence may remain upon us (Psalm 91). Inspired Teaching: 1 Samuel 15:1-9 NKJV 15 Samuel also said to Saul, “The Lord sent me to anoint you king over His people, over Israel. Now therefore, heed the voice of the words of the Lord. 2 Thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘I will punish Amalek for what he did to Israel, how he ambushed him on the way when he came up from Egypt. 3 Now go and attack[a] Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’ ” 4 So Saul gathered the people together and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand foot soldiers and ten thousand men of Judah. 5 And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and lay in wait in the valley. 6 Then Saul said to the Kenites, “Go, depart, get down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them. For you showed kindness to all the children of Israel when they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites. 7 And Saul attacked the Amalekites, from Havilah all the way to Shur, which is east of Egypt. 8 He also took Agag king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. 9 But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good, and were unwilling to utterly destroy them. But everything despised and worthless, that they utterly destroyed. In the above scriptures, you can see that Saul and the people decided on their own to pick and choose what they would save vs destroying. God has a reason for destroying this race. They’re descendants from the giants and God cursed them before the flood. He was using Israel to fully destroy them completing His word against the giants. Another words, this was a race that had mixed blood between spirit realm and humanity. This is what the giants did when the watchers mated by taking humans wives for themselves. Genesis 6:1-2 NKJV 6 Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, 2 that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose. Isaiah 1:18 NKJV 18 “Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the Lord, “Though your sins are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They shall be as wool. We may not always understand why God has certain commandments in place, but we need to obey them. We can go to Him and ask Him for understanding but the end act still results in obedience, otherwise there are consequences and having God reject you is an awful consequence you do not want to experience. 1 Samuel 15:10-23 NKJV 10 Now the word of the Lord came to Samuel, saying, 11 “I greatly regret that I have set up Saul as king, for he has turned back from following Me, and has not performed My commandments.” And it grieved Samuel, and he cried out to the Lord all night. 12 So when Samuel rose early in the morning to meet Saul, it was told Samuel, saying, “Saul went to Carmel, and indeed, he set up a monument for himself; and he has gone on around, passed by, and gone down to Gilgal.” 13 Then Samuel went to Saul, and Saul said to him, “Blessed are you of the Lord! I have performed the commandment of the Lord.” 14 But Samuel said, “What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?” 15 And Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and the oxen, to sacrifice to the Lord your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.” 16 Then Samuel said to Saul, “Be quiet! And I will tell you what the Lord said to me last night.” And he said to him, “Speak on.” 17 So Samuel said, “When you were little in your own eyes, were you not head of the tribes of Israel? And did not the Lord anoint you king over Israel? 18 Now the Lord sent you on a mission, and said, ‘Go, and utterly destroy the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are [b]consumed.’ 19 Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord? Why did you swoop down on the [c]spoil, and do evil in the sight of the Lord?” 20 And Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed the voice of the Lord, and gone on the mission on which the Lord sent me, and brought back Agag king of Amalek; I have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. 21 But the people took of the plunder, sheep and oxen, the best of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.” 22 So Samuel said: “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, As in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams. 23 For rebellion is as the sin of [d]witchcraft, And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He also has rejected you from being king.” Notice two things going on here. The king blamed the disobedience on the people in essence lying to God about obeying His commandments. Second, he kept twisting his response to say that yes, he did obey God’s commandments ‘for the most part’. (That part is implied but God knows the truth.) Question, do you think Saul was aware of what he was doing? I’m pretty certain he was and when dealing with other people in a situation like this, you usually can talk your way out of the disobedience, but Saul learned quickly he couldn’t talk his way out of this one with Samuel. Then Saul tried another approach. 1 Samuel 15:24-29 NKJV 24 Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice. 25 Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and return with me, that I may worship the Lord.”26 But Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you, for you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you from being kin g over Israel.”27 And as Samuel turned around to go away, Saul seized the edge of his robe, and it tore. 28 So Samuel said to him, “The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you. 29 And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor relent. For He is not a man, that He should relent.” Saul tried repenting with a lie. By still blaming the people in saying he obeyed their voice vs God’s voice, he said he was sorry but in reality, he still blamed the people and didn’t take responsibility for his sin. Samuel still didn’t fall for the false repentance. Look what happened. God removed Saul from being king over Israel and because Saul realized that it was too late and tried to physically man handled Samuel into accepting his repentance, and ending up tearing his robe, Samuel proclaimed the kingdom will be torn from him. 1 Samuel 15:23 NKJV 23 For rebellion is as the sin of [d]witchcraft, And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He also has rejected you from being king.” Because Saul rejected the word of God, God rejected him from being king. Every time you reject God, He rejects you. And some of the things you reject have permanent consequences, such as Saul no longer being king. There are consequences but it’s not too late. Humble yourself and repent. Return to God and heed His Word. Exodus 15:26 NKJV 26 and said, “If you diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the Lord who heals you.” Romans 10:9-10 NKJV 9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. To repent, confess with your mouth and be sincere. Don’t be like Saul. Say this out loud: Dear Jesus, forgive me of my sins and come into my heart and be my Lord and savior. I’m sorry that I’ve disobeyed Your Word but I choose to no longer do that. In Jesus’ Name, Amen! Now seek God’s Word and find out what His commandments are so you can walk in obedience. Note, you’re still responsible in ignorance. And don’t depend on people or non-biblical sources to tell you what God’s commandments are. Find out direct from the source – The Bible. And once you find out, obey them. Once you place God’s commandments first in the center of your life, everything lines up. Blessings come your way and God says He knows you. Does God know who you are? If He knows you, you’re protected. Psalm 91:1-16 NKJV He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust.” 3 Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the [a]fowler And from the perilous pestilence. 4 He shall cover you with His feathers, And under His wings you shall take refuge; His truth shall be your shield and [b]buckler. 5 You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, Nor of the arrow that flies by day, 6 Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, Nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday. 7 A thousand may fall at your side, And ten thousand at your right hand; But it shall not come near you. 8 Only with your eyes shall you look, And see the reward of the wicked. 9 Because you have made the Lord, who is my refuge, Even the Most High, your dwelling place, 10 No evil shall befall you, Nor shall any plague come near your dwelling; 11 For He shall give His angels charge over you, To keep you in all your ways. 12 In their hands they shall [c]bear you up, Lest you [d]dash your foot against a stone. 13 You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra, The young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot. 14 “Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him; I will [e]set him on high, because he has known My name. 15 He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him. 16 With [f]long life I will satisfy him, And show him My salvation.” Previous Next Home

BLESS THOSE WHO DESIRE TO FEAR YOUR NAME The objective of this teaching is to help believers understand the depth and importance of reverence toward God, as illustrated through the example of Nehemiah. It seeks to show that the true fear of the Lord is not terror, but a mature and humble reverence that acknowledges His holiness, our unworthiness, and our dependence upon His mercy. Through Nehemiah’s prayer, repentance, and bold petition before both God and the earthly king, believers are encouraged to cultivate a heart that fears the Lord, embraces His promises, and seeks His mercy for restoration and blessing. BLESS THOSE WHO DESIRE TO FEAR YOUR NAME Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: The objective of this teaching is to help believers understand the depth and importance of reverence toward God, as illustrated through the example of Nehemiah. It seeks to show that the true fear of the Lord is not terror, but a mature and humble reverence that acknowledges His holiness, our unworthiness, and our dependence upon His mercy. Through Nehemiah’s prayer, repentance, and bold petition before both God and the earthly king, believers are encouraged to cultivate a heart that fears the Lord, embraces His promises, and seeks His mercy for restoration and blessing. Synopsis: In Bless Those Who Desire to Fear Your Name, Pastor Marcos Marrero draws from Nehemiah 1:11 to highlight the spiritual posture of reverence and humility that pleases God. Nehemiah, the king’s cupbearer, understood reverence well because his daily life depended on proper conduct before a human king. This earthly experience shaped his understanding of approaching the divine King with holy fear and respect. The message underscores that many Christians approach God too casually, missing the blessings found in the reverence of His name. Nehemiah, however, acknowledged sin—his own and that of Israel—confessing corruption and disobedience before God. Yet, while recognizing God’s judgment, he reminded the Lord of His covenant of mercy and restoration, demonstrating both maturity and faith. Nehemiah’s prayers reveal a balance of humility and boldness: he did not ask for personal prosperity, but for mercy, favor, and restoration for God’s people. His reliance on prayer—whether in private or in the moment of crisis before the king—shows that the fear of the Lord leads to wisdom, courage, and divine favor. Pastor Marcos draws a parallel between governance and the church, warning that corruption in government reflects the paganism tolerated in the church. Just as Nehemiah cleansed Israel’s worship from corruption, believers today must return to holiness and reverence, ensuring that their worship is pure and their dependence rests fully on God. Ultimately, the teaching calls believers to live in the fear of the Lord—a reverent dependence upon His mercy—so that they may walk in wisdom, experience restoration, and carry His blessings into their personal lives and communities. Inspired Teaching: Nehemiah 1:11 “O Lord, I pray, please let your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant, and to the prayer of Your servants who desire to fear Your name; and let Your servant prosper this day, I pray, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king’s cupbearer.” If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and it is, then a desire to fear His name it should bring to us the knowledge of how to walk in the blessings of God. First let us understand that the fear of the Lord is the reverence that it is due to His name. Unfortunately most Christians have a casual understanding of what true reverence is; now it is true that a father who is in a position of great authority wouldn’t get too upset if his child venture into his office while he is conducting important business, but he would make sure that such a distraction did not happen too often, for that would show him to be incompetent. So that the casual child like attitude that many Christians show towards God, though at times it may not be treated as irreverence by our heavenly Father due to our child like behavior, it is something that definitely keeps us from entering into His office where the business of blessings is taking place. For in His presence, while in fulfillment of His ministry, the protocol of His office demands maturity and self-control. For I was the king’s cupbearer. Nehemiah was a servant to the king. In those days the king had unquestionable authority over the lives of those whom he ruled; Nehemiah was a slave from a conquered nation who had gained the confidence of the king to be one of his many servants that attended to the king’s daily needs. Two things that you did not want to be in those days: one who delivered bad news to the king, or a personal servant to the king who failed to satisfy the king’s request, either one of those could get you killed. The point that I am trying to make is that Nehemiah understood what proper reverence was all about, after all his life depended on it in a daily basis, his actions and behavior towards God are recorded for the benefit of those of us who have a desire to learn how to come before God and into His holy presence in true reverence. Nehemiah 1:7 “We have acted very corruptly against You, and have not kept the commandments, the statutes, nor the ordinances which You commanded Your servant Moses.” A true sign of maturity is when a person understands the difference between the power of holiness and the weakness of sin. The reason why the basic meaning for the word reverence is the word fear, is because fear of not gaining or fear of losing our well being is what is at stake in our relationship with a holy God. After all He is holy and we are not, and without His grace, mercy, and compassion we are at a loss. A heart that deep within itself says, I am not worthy to be anywhere near the holy presence of God, will immediately acknowledge that fact if allowed into the presence of God. There cannot be any level of self righteousness within ourselves in the presence of a holy God. Nehemiah said, we violated the commandments, the statutes, the ordinances, we deserve everything bad that has happened to us, so that there is an inherited fear, respect, and reverence while in His presence that says, we are totally dependent upon Your mercy Lord. Nehemiah 1:8-9 “Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses, saying, ‘If your are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations; but if you return to Me, and keep My commandments and do them, though some of you were cast out to the farthest part of the heavens, yet I will gather them from there, and bring them to the place which I have chosen as a dwelling place for My name’” Nehemiah acknowledges that everything bad that has happened to them is in accordance with what God had promised, so that he is in agreement with the Word of God; but then he pivots and reminds God that along with the judgment God also had promised restoration, that is why he starts his prayer on the basis of God’s promised mercy to those who would acknowledge their sins before God in repentance. Nehemiah 1:5-6 “And I said: ‘I pray, Lord God of heaven, O great and awesome God, You who keep Your covenant and mercy with those who love You and observe Your commandments, please let Your ear be attentive and Your eyes open, that You may hear the prayer of Your servant which I pray before You now, day and night, for the children of Israel Your servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel which we have sinned against You. Both my fathers house and I have sinned.’” What prompted Nehemiah to pray was the bad news that he received from some travelers that came from Judah and Jerusalem. He was told that God’s people were in great distress and reproach, and that the walls of Jerusalem were also broken and the gates were burned with fire. Look at the humble heart of this man of God as he confesses before God the sins of the children of Israel and adds, both my fathers house and I myself have sinned and are responsible for this catastrophe that has befallen God’s servants, the children of Israel. In our opening text Nehemiah asks for prosperity: And let Your servant prosper this day, I pray, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man, but he is not asking for personal prosperity but rather he desires to be prosperous in the commodity of mercy. What Nehemiah is referring to is that after hearing all this bad news he is going to have to go and do his duty of serving the king,;a bad attitude is not going to serve him well in front of a king that does not like bad news. So he asks the Lord of Mercy for mercy when he goes before the king, knowing that he is not going to be able to be the usual cheerful servant that the king is used to. Nehemiah 2:1-2 “...I took the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had never been sad in his presence before. Therefore the king said to me, ‘Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing but sorrow of heart.’ So I became dreadfully afraid.” Obviously, the king kept a wide eye upon all his servants and immediately recognized that something was wrong with Nehemiah, not that he was so much concerned about his personal problems as much as he was probably suspicious of those around him when they were not behaving normally, that is probably why Nehemiah became dreadfully afraid. He could have been accused of plotting anything against the king and executed right on the spot, but he had prayed to the God of Mercy for mercy. Nehemiah 2:3 “And said to the king, ‘May the king live forever! Why should my face not be sad, when the city, the place of my father’s tombs, lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire?’” I am pretty sure that the king kept track of all that was going on under his palace and knew that Nehemiah had received foreign visitors, and knew of the bad news that they brought to Nehemiah, so that once he heard Nehemiah’s explanation his suspicion abated. Nehemiah 2:4-5 “Then the king said to me, ‘What do you request?’ So I prayed to the God of heaven. And I said to the king, ‘If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I ask that you send me to Judah, to the city of my father’s tombs, that I may rebuild it.’” What an amazing story, Nehemiah goes from a situation of been in dreadful fear for his life, to asking for the deliverance of an entire nation in the course of one verse; one can only learn that, from being in the presence of the God of Mercy, for those who truly fear the Lord are also made aware of His great power to impart the blessings of mercy. Notice how Nehemiah says that before he answered the king he prayed to the God of heaven, he probably said to himself, What should I ask for Lord? The answer was what he truly desired in his heart and what he had been praying for: Restitution, for that is what mercy does! In those days when a king asked one of his subjects for a request it was a big deal, for a king could truly make somebody extremely prosperous, but Nehemiah had not being praying for personal prosperity, he had been praying for mercy and restoration for his people. Imagine the surprise that the king had when the request that Nehemiah made was not a request for personal gain, but made on behalf of a vanquished nation. We are told that the queen was sitting next to the king when the request was made, almost like the king looked at the queen and then asked Nehemiah, how long are you going to be gone? If there is one thing that a king understands is the level of devotion that the subjects to his kingdom demonstrate, now he understood what it was that made Nehemiah such a faithful servant to his kingdom. Nehemiah truly valued the security that a well run government offered its citizens. That is why we are commanded to pray for those in authority, for if we understand how the physical authorities function, and how they are suppose to function, and have a healthy respect for the process of governing even under an imperfect human government, then we can live and minister in the house of God, the church, in awed, holy fear and respect for a perfect Sovereign God who governs justly. Nehemiah 13:30-31 “Thus I cleansed them of everything pagan. I also assigned duties to the priests and the Levites, each to his service, and to bringing the wood of offering and the firstfruits at appointed times. Remember me, O my God, for good!” If a government is going to run properly it must rid itself of bias and corruption, a corrupt government will drown itself in its corruption. Nehemiah understood how the principle of corruption could bring down the human government, and he learned that in order for the house of God to be governed well, it also had to be rid of the bias and corruption that paganism brings into the house of God, for that is what eventually leads the contaminated worshipers into bondage. Paganism is to the church what corruption is to the government. And I venture to say that if a nation that was founded on Judeo Christian values, is now under a corrupt government, it is as a direct result of the paganism that contaminates the churches that exist within that nation that are supposed to promote biblical values instead of the human paganism that fosters and tolerates corruption. Think of that, the condition of the church is reflected by the condition of the government that rules over the nation where those churches minister. Makes you wonder, doesn’t? If we want to rid our governments of corruption, then we need to rid ourselves of paganism! 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STABILITY FOR OUR TIMES The objective of this teaching is to demonstrate that true stability in life is not found in external circumstances, comfort, or human achievements, but in the wisdom, knowledge, and fear of the Lord. By understanding God’s sovereignty, trusting His promises, and embracing the hope of resurrection, believers are equipped to endure trials, overcome despair, and remain steadfast in faith, even in the face of death and great personal loss. STABILITY FOR OUR TIMES Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: The objective of this teaching is to demonstrate that true stability in life is not found in external circumstances, comfort, or human achievements, but in the wisdom, knowledge, and fear of the Lord. By understanding God’s sovereignty, trusting His promises, and embracing the hope of resurrection, believers are equipped to endure trials, overcome despair, and remain steadfast in faith, even in the face of death and great personal loss. Synopsis: In Stability for Our Times, Pastor Marcos Marrero expounds on Isaiah 33:6, emphasizing that wisdom and knowledge rooted in God’s Word are the foundation of stability during uncertain and difficult times. Humanity naturally longs for a utopia free of suffering, yet Jesus Himself declared that tribulations are inevitable in this world. Historically and personally, fear and instability have always stemmed from the uncertainty of life’s resources, dangers, and losses. Pastor Marcos explains that the wisdom of God sustains the human spirit and the knowledge of His sovereignty strengthens salvation. With Scriptures such as Romans 8:28, he reminds believers that all things work together for good when we trust God’s purpose. Trials and testing refine faith, revealing the treasures of God’s promises, while the fear (reverence) of the Lord becomes the true treasure of the believer. Through personal experiences as a minister officiating funerals, Pastor Marcos reflects on the profound hope found in the resurrection. The certainty of eternal life and reunion with loved ones in Christ offers peace in times of grief. Death, while painful, becomes a temporary separation rather than a final loss, for to God all live. Believers are promised glorified, eternal bodies that will showcase God’s perfect design. Ultimately, Pastor Marcos stresses that stability comes from knowing we are only sojourners on earth, destined for eternal peace and perfection. With this perspective, even in the midst of calamities, trials, or bereavement, Christians can stand firm, anchored in the faithfulness of God who promised eternal life and resurrection. Hebrews 10:23 captures the core message: “For He who promised is faithful.” Inspired Teaching: Isaiah 33:6 “Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times, and the strength of salvation; the fear of the Lord is His treasure.” Why do we have to go through trials? Why is it that we all must suffer indignations? It was Jesus who told us that: In this world you will have tribulations. We humans by nature, are creatures of comfort for the most part; we do not like it if gets too hot, and we certainly do not like when our feet get too cold. We can safely assume that the most prevalent of all human fantasies, and the only one whose realization has eluded humanity throughout all of its history, is the utopian fantasy of a society that is void of trouble. For millennia those who lived near the ocean dreamed and longed for oceans that were void of hurricanes, tsunamis, and of invading war ships. Those who lived by rivers, lived in fear of its drying up or of its seasonal flooding, also in the fear of armies that used rivers as a highway to facilitate their conquests. Old cities were usually built around the natural resources that allowed them to grow and to prosper, and the fear that they might lose those resources or that those resources might attract enemies, were the very cause for their anxiety and insecurity, and in many cases the reason for their demise as well; that is just a historical fact of life. Our opening verse of Scripture seems to imply that our knowledge of the fact that, In this world we will have tribulations, will somehow bring stability into the times in which we are living, whether it be the good times or the bad times. Proverbs 18:14 “The spirit of a man will sustain him in sickness, but who can bear a broken spirit?” The wisdom of God will sustain the spirit of the man, and the knowledge that in all things and that at all times God is in total and complete control of whatever situation we are facing, is the hope of the soul and the strength of the salvation that God has for all of us. Romans 8:28 “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.” If we know that God is always working out the plan and destiny that He has for our lives, and the lives of those who love Him, then we have peace, and that peace is the strength of our salvation. Our spirit becomes sick or broken when we lose hope, and our lack of understanding is the reason why we lose our hope. We need to know deep within our souls that in order for our salvation to be strengthened, our faith must be tried, for without God’s testing in our lives we will never find the treasures that our Lord has for us all. The fear of the Lord, which is the reverence due to the promises given to us, the believers, by God in His Word, are His treasure! Abraham had to face the death of his son, the son of promise, before he could find the life of the Son of God that was promised to him in the covenant that followed his testing. A parent might ask from the depths of their bereavement, after the death of their innocent child: How does the death of my child that I loved be in any way constructive to me and to the plans that God has for my life? That is a question that only God is qualified to answer, since it was He who voluntarily gave us His most precious Son, not only to die, but to be vilified and tortured; not just physical torture, but He had to endure horrific demonic oppression to the depths that no other human had ever endured, and unlike us who are worthy of punishment because of all our sins, He endured all that He did for the sake of demonstrating His perfect love for us; that while we were still sinners Christ died for us. Matthew 19:14 “ But Jesus said, ‘Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven.’” I’ve officiated over a few funerals in my ministry life, they ranged from complete strangers that I had never met, to very close dear loved ones whose departure broke my heart. The resurrection Scriptures that I’ve quoted over the strangers that I buried would not have had as much meaning and intensity to me if it were not for the fact that they were the very same resurrection Scriptures that I’ve quoted over the loved ones that I’ve buried. Though about to be buried, I proclaimed those Scriptures over them in the hope that some day I would see them alive again in the flesh. In a gravesite service for a Christian elderly woman whom I had never met, and in the presence of a few people that included some of the workers that would be burying her after I finish the service, all of the sudden I had tears rundown my face when I spoke about the surety of her resurrection from the dead someday. The people that were present did not know that as I was speaking with conviction of faith about her future resurrection from the dead, that the Lord spoke to my heart and said to me, You might not have known who she was in this life, but one day soon you will meet her in person when I raise all my children who trust My Words from the dead. It was there that it became so real to me; for right there it hit me, the reality that we have not followed cunningly devised fables, for we were eye witnesses of Christ’s resurrection, one of the apostles said. Death may loom large above us now while on this earth, but the reality of His resurrected life dissipates all gloominess and fears, for we know that someday soon He will raise us up. Isaiah 33:10 “Now I will rise, says the Lord; now I will be exalted, now I will lift Myself up.” For us Christians, death is a non-issue, or at least it should be. I am not saying that it does not hurt when we lose a loved one, for it does; or that we should not mourn properly, for it is necessary for us to do so. Who among us has not experienced the death of a loved one or will one day experience the sting of death for ourselves? For it is appointed unto men once to die. The revelation of the knowledge that I am trying to teach here revolves around the fact that to God all live. And if we are believers of the Word of God, then according to God’s Word the loved ones that we’ve lost are not dead, and must certainly they are not lost; we have been separated from them temporarily, but they are definitely neither lost nor dead to God. 2 Samuel 12:22-23 “...While the child was alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who can tell whether the Lord will be gracious to me, that the child may live? But now he is dead; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.’” The foundation of Christianity itself stands on the fact of the reality of the physical resurrection from the dead. We do not believe in a sort of a wishy-washy existence after we’re dead that somehow coexists with the elements of nature. After we die we do not live as spirits among the trees or the mountains, not even in the clouds; as believers of Jesus Christ, after we die we go to a real place called heaven, in a new body that is given to us after we die, and we are taken before our living Savior, who is sitting in a real throne with a real physical body. And not only that but the loved ones that preceded us will be there to greet us as well, along with our Savior. And we need to know these facts if we want to enjoy rock solid stability in the face of calamities. 2 Corinthians 5:1 “For we know that if our earthly house, this tent (our physical body) is destroyed (dies), we have a building from God, a house (new body) not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.” Our new eternal bodies will display the spiritual qualities that our earthly bodies presently hinder, for while here in our present physical appearance we are not capable of displaying our true person. So that our person will be known in heaven to all who knew us here on the earth, even though the physical appearance of our new body in heaven might differ a lot from what we looked like here on earth. Children and infants will be grown ups for example. That is because many if not all of us, have bodies here on this earth that have been deformed by the consequences of the iniquity which our bodies have inherited, the iniquities that caused the development of our present bodies to deviate from God’s original blue print for us. But our redeemed personalities will be showcased through the perfectness of our new bodies in an incredibly amazing choreography of God’s individuality for each one of us, that will be made known to all: We will know as we are known! Isaiah 33:24 “And the inhabitant will not say, ‘I am sick’; the people who dwell in it (their new bodies) will be forgiven their iniquities.” The wisdom of knowing that we are but sojourners on this earth, and that our destiny is one of gain, peace, and perfection, brings into our souls the stability that keeps us strong through whatever adversities we must travel; for in the end, His great and precious promises are the treasure that will reward our faithfulness if we don’t give up! HEBREWS 10:23 “FOR HE THAT PROMISED IS FAITHFUL!” Previous Next Home

THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS To help believers understand the covenant name of Jesus—The Lord Our Righteousness—as the guarantee of God’s covenant with humanity. The lesson aims to show how Jesus, as the Faithful and True executor of the covenant sealed by His blood, alone provides righteousness for mankind. It also emphasizes the certainty of His soon return and urges believers to hold fast to the promises of the covenant without being swayed by doubt or false teachings. THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: To help believers understand the covenant name of Jesus—The Lord Our Righteousness—as the guarantee of God’s covenant with humanity. The lesson aims to show how Jesus, as the Faithful and True executor of the covenant sealed by His blood, alone provides righteousness for mankind. It also emphasizes the certainty of His soon return and urges believers to hold fast to the promises of the covenant without being swayed by doubt or false teachings. Synopsis: Jeremiah 23:6 reveals Jesus’ covenant name, The Lord Our Righteousness, which points to His role as the righteous executor of God’s covenant. Unlike humanity, which has continually broken the covenant, Jesus fulfilled every requirement perfectly through His blood sacrifice, ensuring the forgiveness of sins and right standing with God. Scripture portrays Him as Faithful and True, bound to the Word of God and faithful to bring every promise to completion—including His return to establish His Kingdom. The teaching stresses that many voices today deny the reality of Christ’s physical return, but the covenant leaves no room for spiritualized or metaphorical interpretations. Just as He ascended, He will return visibly in the clouds, and every eye will see Him. Believers are reminded not to be deceived but to cling to the covenant, for not one word of it will fail. In the last days, scoffers will question His coming, yet this itself is a sign of His nearness. Ultimately, The Lord Our Righteousness is our guarantee: He has taken away our sins, given us His righteousness, and will soon return to reign as King of kings and Lord of lords. This truth should inspire reverence for God’s covenant, faith in His promises, and hope in the certainty of Christ’s imminent return. Inspired Teaching: Jeremiah 23:6 “In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell safely; now this is His name by which He will be called: THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.” Jeremiah inspired by the Holy Spirit gives us insight into the reign of the Lord during the Kingdom Age, and through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit he reveals to us the name by which Jesus will be called during His glorious reign. THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS is Jesus’ covenant name. A covenant is a legal document that guarantees the execution of those things which are stipulated within the covenant. What that means is that the executor of the covenant has to meet all of the requirements of the covenant in order to bring about their fulfillment. Revelation 19:11 “Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war.” God is God, and in His dealings with men He can do to men whatever He wants to do, and whenever He wants to do it, good or bad, for after all we are His creation and we are all subject to Him. But notice the name that precedes the righteousness of Jesus actions, we read that He is also called Faithful and True. Which means that God follows a carefully laid out plan in His dealings with men, a covenant if you will, to which God swears Himself to uphold. Where is that covenant found? Revelation 19:13 “He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God.” Keep in mind that a biblical covenant requires the shedding of blood as a seal of its surety. So we see that THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS is Faithful and True to The Word of God, the covenant, and as a guarantee of His ability to implement all the provisions of the covenant He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood. How beautiful and how perfect is The Word of God! Revelation 19:16 “And He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.” He is KING ALMIGHTY GOD, and He is LORD OVER ALL THE CREATION, and still He follows the carefully crafted plan laid out in God’s Word, what He calls His covenant with men. Since God has such great respect towards the covenant that He instituted with Adam and his seed, should we not, the seed of Adam, have as much respect and a desire to understand the counsel that God Himself follows: the covenant that God made with man as written in His Word? Human history, in regards as to how good we humans are at keeping God’s covenant, is not a good one. Hosea 6:7 “Like Adam, they have broken the covenant—they were unfaithful to me there.” NIV Not only does the human race in general have a history of breaking the covenant—the Word of God—but also those through whom the words of the covenant were supposed to be lived out—Israel and Judah—have a history themselves of forsaking God’s covenant. Jeremiah 22:8-9 “And many nations will pass by this city; and everyone will say to his neighbor, ‘Why has the Lord done so to this great city?’ Then they will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God, and worshipped other gods and served them.’” If there is one thing that we humans lack is the ability to do the right thing. Romans 3:10 “As it is written: There is none righteous, no, not one.” So that the executor of the covenant had to be righteous and a descendant of Adam, a human, who Himself would be able to impute of His own righteousness to His human brethren who lacked it, and in accordance with God’s covenant as stipulated in His Word. Romans 11:27 “For this is My covenant with them, when I take away their sins.” This is why He is called THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS, for our righteousness, or right standing before God, comes from Him and Him alone, our kinsman redeemer. Hebrews 2:12-13 “Saying: ‘I will declare Your name to My brethren; in the midst of the assembly I will sing praise to You.’ And again: ‘I will put My trust in Him.’ And again: ‘Here am I and the children whom God has given Me.’” Hebrews 8:12 “For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” Now why am I emphasizing that which should be very clear to all of us who believe? I want us to focus afresh on the covenant, especially as it relates to His soon return. For there are many voices out there that are trying to persuade true believers that the parts of the covenant that deal with His soon return and the setting up of His Kingdom Age, that they are not relevant anymore. Let me ask you, which part of the covenant did Jesus leave unfulfilled? Or is there any of you who believe that the covenant does not apply to the Kingdom Age as in regards to us His saints, ruling and reigning with him during the Kingdom Age? Revelation 1:6-7 “And has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen.” What part of He is coming with clouds don’t they understand? Some say that His return is a metaphor and that His church is already here on earth ruling and reigning over the affairs of men. Then tell me, if you know, where is the One who will be called THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS when His kingdom is set up? Is He here in the earth right now, if He is, then why are we still in our sins? John 14:2-3 “In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.” Acts 1:11 “...Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven.” Revelation tells us that every eye will see Him when He returns in the clouds of glory, I have eyes, mine eyes have not seen Him return yet, and neither have yours. Jesus told us that when He physically returns, He will receive us unto Himself, we are not with Jesus yet, so that He has not returned as of this writing. Do not be cheated out of your portion of the covenant my friends. Not one jot or tittle of His covenant Word will be omitted or left unfulfilled. Matthew 5:18 “For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law (covenant) till all is fulfilled.” In one of the epistles it tells us about the inquiries of those who lacked faith, as they asked, where is this coming that we heard so much about? 2 Peter 3:3-4 “Knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, and saying, ‘Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.’” In the last days they will be scoffing at His promised return which is a sign, according to God’s Word, that we are living in the days of Jesus’ soon return to set up His kingdom. Jeremiah 23:20 “The anger of the Lord will not turn back until He has executed and performed the thoughts of His heart (the contents of His covenant). In the latter days you will understand it perfectly.” I laid out to you the basics of the covenant, and how important it is from God’s perspective, that we understand the rigidity of the covenant. And since we are living in the latter days where we have the ability to comprehend the entirety and surety of the covenant, by the things which God has already fulfilled, then we should not have any problem understanding perfectly about the soon return of Christ to complete those things that are yet to be resolved. How do you see God? Does He feel near to you or is He far from you? Jeremiah 23:23-24 “‘Am I a God near at hand,’ says the Lord, ‘and not a God afar off? Can anyone hide himself in secret places, so I shall not see him?’ Says the Lord; ‘Do I not fill heaven and earth?’ Says the Lord.” Previous Next Home

SENDING MIXED MESSAGES TO GOD To help believers recognize how doubt, impatience, and self-reliance can send mixed messages to God in prayer, and to guide them into a deeper life of faith, obedience, and trust. This teaching equips listeners to align their prayers with their actions, stand firm in God’s grace, and learn to truly believe, release, and wait on the Lord without taking matters back into their own hands. < Back SENDING MIXED MESSAGES TO GOD Minister Lisa Kane December 14, 2025 Objective: To help believers recognize how doubt, impatience, and self-reliance can send mixed messages to God in prayer, and to guide them into a deeper life of faith, obedience, and trust. This teaching equips listeners to align their prayers with their actions, stand firm in God’s grace, and learn to truly believe, release, and wait on the Lord without taking matters back into their own hands. Synopsis: In Sending Mixed Messages to God, Minister Lisa Kane addresses a common struggle in the life of faith: believing God in prayer while simultaneously relying on human solutions. Rooted in Philippians 4:6–7, this teaching reveals how anxiety, impatience, and unchecked thoughts can contradict our prayers. Through scriptures such as Mark 11:24, 2 Corinthians 10:4–6, Galatians 5:1, and Hebrews 11:6, believers are challenged to bring every thought into obedience to Christ, choose faith over fear, and grace over the law. Minister Lisa emphasizes the power of the secret place, the necessity of honest prayer, and the discipline of waiting on the Lord. The message calls believers to stop reclaiming what they have already surrendered to God, to trust Him fully, and to rest in the peace that comes from unwavering faith and obedience. Inspired Teaching: Philippians 4:6-7 NKJV 6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; 7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Throughout my years, I’ve come to realize something about my prayer requests. Sometimes, they are answered and sometimes they are not. And I ask myself, why? In some cases, I believe it’s because I’m sending God mixed messages with my requests. In reality, do I believe that God can take care of ALL my prayer requests? Yes, I do but my actions say otherwise. Mark 10:27 NKJV 27 But Jesus looked at them and said, “With men it is impossible, but not with God; for with God all things are possible.” Matthew 19:26 NKJV 26 But Jesus looked at them and said to them, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” All things are possible with God, but then why do I struggle believing that? 2 Corinthians 10:4-6 NKJV For the weapons of our warfare are not [a]carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, 6 and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled. Against the knowledge of God…do you see that? I have the knowledge of God but for some reason, I don’t believe. I’d rather call a ‘professional’ to help me than to go to God with my issue. And here in 2 Cor 10:5, I can bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, and being ready to punish disobedience. Notice, this says ‘obedience’ and punish ‘disobedience’…instead, we’re justifying our thoughts and accepting them as truth. For example, I feel a cold coming on. My first thought is: do I have medicine to easy my symptoms? When my first thought should have been to say: Jesus You are Lord over this sickness and I do not accept this sickness into my life. And whatever I’ve done to allow this in, I forgive that and ask You to forgive it as well. Shut the door on this sickness in the Name of Jesus. Mark 11:24 NKJV 24 Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them. Once I ask God to forgive it, it is finished! I just need to leave it there but sometimes I become impatient and try to take it back because He’s taking “forever” to handle the matter. Isn’t this a mixed message? Sometimes, we also need to wait on the Lord after we give it to Him. Galatians 5:1-6 NKJV Stand[a] fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. 2 Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing. 3 And I testify again to every man who becomes circumcised that he is [b]a debtor to keep the whole law. 4 You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace. 5 For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love. You see, he said to ‘stand’. First word in Galatians 5:1. But, our minds like to go back to ‘taking care of the problem’ ourselves or believing in a way to handle it ourselves. Almost like, God, I got this. Never mind. Grace is clearly a gift from God and yet we do everything we can to go back to the law where we are told what not to do. Living by the law is not living in Christ liberty. But Grace gives us liberty. We have the liberty to say we’re forgiven and to ask our Lord for anything and He will give it. We need to remember this and leave it with Him. Hebrews 11:6 NKJV 6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. Ahhh – here is the crux of the matter. We need to have faith…another words, we need to believe that God is more than capable of taking care of the issue. And we need to have that patience with Him as He handles the problem. So, how do we show God that we have faith, which will PLEASE Him. Pleasing God should be a priority. I don’t know about you but I fear Him who has my eternity in His hands. That means, it’s a priority in my heart to please Him. Mark 9:23-24 NKJV 23 Jesus said to him, “If[d] you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.” 24 Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!” It starts by going to God and telling Him we have a problem with believing in Him. Jesus showed us how to pray and it starts with that. Matthew 6:6-15 NKJV 6 But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you [c]openly. 7 And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words. 8 “Therefore do not be like them. For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him. 9 In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. 10 Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven. 11 Give us this day our daily bread. 12 And forgive us our debts, As we forgive our debtors. 13 And do not lead us into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one. [d]For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. 14 “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Notice the first thing Jesus says: go into your room and shut your door in the secret place. Start there. Remember, Psalm 91:1 NKJV He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. What you do in the secret place with the Lord, He will reward in the open. And you don’t have to use vain repetitions or many words. Get to your ‘ask’ because God already knows your petition. But in this moment of asking, humble yourself and acknowledge who God is through your prayer. Hallow Him. Put His kingdom first, His will first, ask that your needs are met, and forgive yourself and others. Even ask Him to build your faith and to help you believe that He is more than possible to take care of your issue. James 5:14-16 NKJV 14 Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. 16 [j]Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, [k]fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. If you are sick, then go to the elders of your church and let them pray over you. Here’s the point of this teaching: believe, ask God, and wait on the Lord. Read what this Psalmist said: Psalm 27:7-14 NKJV 7 Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice! Have mercy also upon me, and answer me. 8 When You said, “Seek My face,” My heart said to You, “Your face, Lord, I will seek.” 9 Do not hide Your face from me; Do not turn Your servant away in anger; You have been my help; Do not leave me nor forsake me, O God of my salvation. 10 When my father and my mother forsake me, Then the Lord will take care of me. 11 Teach me Your way, O Lord, And lead me in a smooth path, because of my enemies. 12 Do not deliver me to the will of my adversaries; For false witnesses have risen against me, And such as breathe out violence. 13 I would have lost heart, unless I had believed That I would see the goodness of the Lord In the land of the living. 14 Wait[e] on the Lord; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the Lord! In this Psalmist case, he had accusers and adversaries around him…don’t we all? He also said he would have lost heart unless he had ‘believed’ or another words had ‘faith’. He acknowledged that he had to go to the Lord first acknowledging the issue and giving it to Him. Then he reiterated ‘wait on the Lord’. Don’t take your situations that you have given to God out of His hands. Leave them there and wait. He will take care of the matter. When you take them out of His hands and try to take care of the situation yourself that’s telling God, “um, hey listen God, I don’t have patience and can’t wait for you to take care this…so I will take care of it myself.” That’s a mixed message to God! Stop sending mixed messages to the Lord with your actions. Give it to Him and wait on Him. Previous Next Home

THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH To emphasize the centrality of faith in the life of the believer, especially in the last days when truth is being suppressed and deception abounds. This teaching seeks to show that only by living by faith in Jesus Christ can we overcome the culture of lies, receive God’s righteousness, and stand firm in the face of coming judgment. THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH Pastor Marcos Marrero February 17, 2019 Objective: To emphasize the centrality of faith in the life of the believer, especially in the last days when truth is being suppressed and deception abounds. This teaching seeks to show that only by living by faith in Jesus Christ can we overcome the culture of lies, receive God’s righteousness, and stand firm in the face of coming judgment. Synopsis: In The Just Shall Live by Faith, Pastor Marcos Marrero draws from Romans 1:17, reinforced by Habakkuk 2:4, Galatians 3:11, and Hebrews 10:38, to reveal the eternal principle that God’s people must live by faith. He explains that Paul’s use of this verse underscores its relevance to the proclamation of the Gospel, the end times, and the return of the Lord. Pastor Marcos contrasts the truth of the Gospel with the prevailing culture of deception, where lies are not only tolerated but celebrated. He notes how politicians, media, and society at large often “love and practice a lie,” a direct opposition to the truth of Christ. This environment makes the Gospel uncomfortable for many because it demands accountability, confession of sin, and trust in Jesus’ shed blood for forgiveness. Through passages such as Habakkuk 2:2-4 and Romans 1:25, Marrero identifies secular humanism and pride as the forces driving humanity to reject truth. Yet, he also stresses that where sin abounds, grace abounds even more, giving the Church an opportunity to boldly proclaim salvation in Christ. He reminds believers that God’s wrath is against unrighteousness, but His mercy is extended to all who, by faith, repent and receive His pardon. Sharing his own testimony of salvation, Pastor Marcos urges readers to embrace the born-again experience by reasoning with God and sincerely asking for His way of salvation. He emphasizes that God delights not in judgment but in redemption, and that no sin is beyond His forgiveness. Ultimately, the message is clear: in an age where lies dominate and truth is ridiculed, the believer’s strength, stability, and hope is found only in faith. As Scripture declares, “The just shall live by faith.” Inspired Teaching: Romans 1:17 “For in it the righteousness from God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, ‘The just shall live by faith.’” The just shall live by faith: This phrase that Paul quotes is from Habakkuk 2:4 and Paul also quotes this same verse of Scripture two other times, in Galatians 3:11 and in Hebrews 10:38, I believe that Paul wrote the letter to the Hebrews. It is a very important Scripture for our present day, because the context always has to do with the proclaiming of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the end of time, and the return of the Lord. Romans 1:18 “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, (those) who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.” One of the signs that the end of days is near, is the total disregard for the truth that not only politicians and those who serve the public in government and news gathering are exhibiting right now, but the willingness of the population at large to believe the obvious lie. There was a time when those who were exposed for lying to the public while serving in public office, had their careers ended for the shame that such actions brought upon them and the mistrust that would follow. Now it is considered an art form to twist the words around that articulate a bold lie in such a way that to question their sincerity makes you look like the bad guy. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is the truth, that is why in the verse preceding our opening text Paul boldly proclaims that he is not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ for it is the power of God to salvation. Here is the reason why in today’s environment the Gospel of Jesus makes so many people uncomfortable. Revelation 22:15 “But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.” Wow, whoever loves and practices a lie will not enter into heaven. The art of subtle deception is a big industry and a lot of big bucks are made by its practitioners today. It is no wonder they try so hard to keep the Gospel from going forward, they cannot handle the truth, so they resort to ridicule the faithful and heap verbal and sometimes physical abuse upon those of us who walk by faith and not by sight. The number one rule in the liars handbook is this: Misdirection, when caught lying, accuse your opponents of doing it first, that way they avoid responsibility for their own actions, but Paul clearly states that the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against such people. What is it that puts at odds and brings to the forefront the preaching of the Gospel and the perpetration of the big lie during these last days? The foundation of the Gospel is that all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and that without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins. We must believe that we are sinners worthy of death, and that the Gospel, which means good news, offers us a way out by way of a pardon, but that pardon cannot be issued on our behalf unless we accept full responsibility for our sins by confessing them before Jesus. After admitting that we are sinners, we turn to fully trusting that God in His mercy, will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness with the precious blood that Jesus shed for our sins. That was the culture of most western nations under the Judeo Christian value system that past generations were brought up under; admit your mistakes, assume responsibility for your misdeeds, receive forgiveness and do not do it again whatever it was that you did wrong! But that is not the culture that our present generation has been brought up to believe, under secular humanism they are told not to get caught, so if they can get away with their wrong doing, no harm done. What happens if they get caught? Blame it on something or someone else, society, your parents, your neighbors, it's is their fault; and avoid responsibility by all means. In other words lie through your teeth if you have to, after all, what difference does it make at this time? But you have to say it with conviction, if you do, the press will love you for that. This is why there is so much disregard for the truth nowadays. But if judgment is coming, and that is what the Gospel teaches, then our faith and way of life to them becomes an inconvenient truth that they do not want to put up with. Habakkuk 2:2-4 “...Write the vision (of the gospel) and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time; but at the end (of time) it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. Behold the proud (those under the influence of secular humanism), his soul is not upright in him; but the just shall live by his faith.” Pride goes before the fall, and secular humanism is based on the spirit of pride, so that we can clearly see that during the end of time, the Gospel will be preached to all the nations, meanwhile the spirit of secular knowledge will continue to corrupt mankind with the lie. Romans 1:25 “Who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.” In the verses that follow you can see a clear depiction of a culture that has been nurtured under the tutelage of the lie. It brings to mind the Scripture that says that the more that sin abounds the more that the grace of God abounds. So that there is an opportunity here for those of us who are not ashamed of the Gospel, to proclaim the truth in love to those who are perishing, to admonish them to make themselves right with God before the final judgment comes, remember that though it tarries, wait for it, for it will surely come. Romans 2:6-9 “(God) Who will render to each one according to his deeds: eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor and immortality; but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness—indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil…” The choice that we present to them is a clear choice, we are all sinners, but our God is a merciful God, if He forgave me, and He did, surely He will forgive you as well. We speak the truth in love and with the clear conviction that the time of His return is very near. Galatians 3:22 “But the Scripture has confined all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to (all) those who believe.” The only requirement is faith in Jesus Christ. Hebrews 10:22-23 “Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.” The time is short and the days for salvation are drawing even shorter, I plead with those of you who are still able to follow the path of reason, that through common sense you might be able to understand that present human behavior defies natural logic. Clearly, humanity is rushing headlong into an incomprehensible abyss of unparalleled historical precedent, we have seen bits and pieces of the horrors that are coming under the banner of men’s inhumanity to men, but that is all kid stuff compared to that which is coming. Surely you do not want to be part of that, do you? I know that it is hard to understand the born again experience without the experience, but God also says that we should come and reason together with Him. If you are not sure of your future, why don’t you just ask Him, that’s how I got saved. I came to the conclusion, when I was twenty nine years of age, that I could not be righteous before God on my own merits so I just simply prayed: Lord, I lack the ability to be perfect before You, unless You show me how to be right with You, I will not make it to heaven, or something like that. Amazing how immediately He began to work things out in my life and eventually lead me to a church service, where I responded to an altar call and experienced that very night my new life in Jesus Christ. I just celebrated this June, thirty seven years since that glorious night, June 2, 1976 that changed my life and my family’s life forever. God is no respecter of persons, there is no sin too big that He will not forgive, and there is no desire whatsoever in His heart to inflict punishment on you or anyone else, as it is written: Ezekiel 33:11 “Say to them: ‘As I live, says the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’” God views human life as very precious in His sight, if you with a true heart ask Him to reveal His path of salvation for you, there is no rock that He will not move out of your way so that you can find His salvation. And once you’ve experienced His love for you, you will never be the same, I can testify to that. Remember always that the just shall live by his/her faith. May God bless you with His salvation, and thank you for taking this lesson to heart. Previous Next Home

Between My Prayer and His Answer The objective of Between My Prayer and His Answer is to encourage believers to seek God boldly, ask Him anything with confidence, and faithfully document the journey of seeking, waiting, and receiving. Between My Prayer and His Answer equips readers to pursue God intentionally, trust Him in the process, and recognize His voice and movement as He responds to those who diligently seek Him. Between My Prayer and His Answer Lisa Kane February 16, 2026 Between My Prayer and His Answer Front Cover Objective: The objective of Between My Prayer and His Answer is to encourage believers to seek God boldly, ask Him anything with confidence, and faithfully document the journey of seeking, waiting, and receiving. Between My Prayer and His Answer equips readers to pursue God intentionally, trust Him in the process, and recognize His voice and movement as He responds to those who diligently seek Him. Synopsis: Between My Prayer and His Answer is more than a journal for the waiting season — it is a sacred space for seeking. This guided prayer journal reminds you that you can ask God anything. Nothing is too small, too large, too broken, or too complicated for Him. As you seek Him with your whole heart, He promises to answer. These pages are designed to help you document your conversations with God — your prayers, your questions, your struggles, your surrender — and to record how He speaks, moves, and responds. The waiting is not passive; it is active pursuit. It is listening. It is trusting. It is watching God unfold His answer in His perfect way and timing. Between your prayer and His answer, you are being transformed. And when the answer comes, you will have written proof that God was faithful all along. Sample first pages of the Book/Manual: Introduction. Write. Wait. Return. Prayer is not meant to be a one-time request sent into the air, hoping something happens. Prayer is meant to be a conversation, a living, growing relationship between you and a faithful God who listens, speaks, and responds in His perfect time. This journal was created for the space that often goes unnoticed: the space between your prayer and His answer. So many of us pray sincerely, yet we forget to return. We ask God for direction, healing, provision, or clarity, but when time passes, life moves on, and the moment is lost. What if instead of forgetting, we remember? What if we learned to document our prayers, wait with expectation, and then return to recognize how God answered? Here, you are invited to write your question to God, record the date, and trust Him with the waiting. Some answers come quickly. Others unfold slowly. And sometimes, we only recognize God’s answer when we look back. These pages are meant to become a testimony, a personal record of how God has walked with you through seasons, decisions, waiting, and breakthrough. There is no schedule here. There is no pressure to fill every page. There is only an invitation. Write. Wait. Return. May this journal help you see what has always been true: God is faithful, God is present, and God does answer prayer. Here's where you can purchase this book of this book is published: Amazon Barnes & Noble Xulon Press Book Found Here Previous Next Home

A NEW THING The objective of A NEW THING is to encourage believers to prepare spiritually, mentally, and emotionally for the divine changes God is orchestrating in their lives and in the world. Drawing from Scripture, the teaching emphasizes trusting God in times of uncertainty, resisting fear, and cultivating faith that aligns with God’s plan. It calls the church to readiness, worship, and reliance on God’s promises as He ushers in a season of wonders and transformative events. A NEW THING Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: The objective of A NEW THING is to encourage believers to prepare spiritually, mentally, and emotionally for the divine changes God is orchestrating in their lives and in the world. Drawing from Scripture, the teaching emphasizes trusting God in times of uncertainty, resisting fear, and cultivating faith that aligns with God’s plan. It calls the church to readiness, worship, and reliance on God’s promises as He ushers in a season of wonders and transformative events. Synopsis: In A NEW THING, Pastor Marcos reflects on a spiritual prompting received during December 2013 to “be still and wait” on the Lord. As the new year of 2014 approached, the Lord revealed through Scripture that He was preparing to do something new—something radical that would alter life as we know it. Pastor Marcos explores this theme through prophetic passages in Isaiah, Habakkuk, Matthew, and Revelation, highlighting the tension between human fear of the unknown and the assurance that God has redeemed and called His people by name. The lesson stresses that change is inevitable, but God’s people must remember they belong to Him, allowing faith to overcome fear. The message considers the possibility of world-altering, divine interventions—events so wondrous they defy human understanding and disrupt established traditions. Using biblical parallels such as the flood of Noah’s day and Christ’s prophecy of His return, Pastor Marcos frames this “new thing” as both a personal and collective call to spiritual readiness. He urges believers to remain steadfast, praising God in all circumstances, and keeping their eyes on Christ as the ultimate fulfillment of God’s promises. Ultimately, A NEW THING is both a prophetic reflection and a practical exhortation: to trust God’s plan, prepare for radical change, and live in expectation of His marvelous work and Christ’s imminent return. Inspired Teaching: As I posted our prayer focus for the last month of the year at the beginning of the month of December 2013, the Lord prompted me to pray for the ability to be still and to wait on Him, little did I know at the time that He wanted me to be still and wait, and not to write anything for the entire month of December, until the time of waiting was over. As I prepared to write again this last day of the year so that I can publish new things for the month of January 2014, the Scripture that the Lord gave to me, showed me that this new year the Lord will be doing something new and that we are to prepare ourselves for this new thing. I am not sure yet what kind of change this new year is going to bring, but for some reason I feel that this new year will be called a year of wonders. As always the Lord deals with us both in the personal level as well as in the corporal level, and is too early yet to know whether this year of wonders has only a personal application or whether it will be a year of wonders for the church as a whole. So, this lesson will deal with how to be prepared for the new thing that the Lord will be doing this new year of 2014. Isaiah 43:1 “...Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine.” A new thing means change and change into something that is new always strikes a cord of fear within us, for we naturally fear that which we do not know. But to overcome the fear which naturally flows out of uncertainty, we need to understand that it is the Lord who is the One that is bringing in the change, and since we belong to Him, for He has redeemed us, that should remove the uncertainty of what this new thing will bring to us, for whatever it is we know that it is part of His plan for our lives. Notice how the Lord makes it very personal, for He tells us that He has called us by our name, it cannot get any more personal than that, and then He adds that we belong to Him. We need to keep this reality fresh in our minds throughout the year no matter what happens, and by doing so we will not give into the temptation to fear, for the spirit of fear always works against our faith. Isaiah 43:21 “This people I have formed for Myself; they shall declare My praise.” And no matter what happens we will be able to praise Him, for according to His promises, we know that all things always work together for the good of those who love Him and who know that they are the called according to His purpose. Romans 8:28 “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.” It is within our nature to wonder what this new thing might be, but we can only speculate as we read between the lines of Scripture. Isaiah 43:18 “Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old.” But whatever it is, we know that it will be radical, for it will eclipse the former order of things, and it will cause us not to even consider the things of old as an alternative way of thinking, so we know that whatever it is it will change life as we know it. Habakkuk 1:5 “Look among the nations and watch—be utterly astounded! For I will work a work in your days which you would not believe, though it were told you.” So what could happen, that it will be so radical, that it would change the long standing traditions of human thinking? What kind of event could change the very foundations and understandings of human knowledge? Isaiah 29:14 “Therefore, behold, I will again do a marvelous work among this people, a marvelous work and a wonder; for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hidden.” The above Scripture gives as a tremendous insight into what that life altering event might be and information about some of its workings. The first thing that we notice is that the work that the Lord is going to do that is going to change life as we know it, He has already done in the past, for He says that He will again do a marvelous work among this people, and then He adds: A marvelous work and a wonder. So that if we ask this question: What kind of work did the Lord do in the past that radically changed the lives of all the earth’s inhabitants? The flood of Noah’s day stands out all by itself, for it affected every human and radically changed the very nature of earth’s nature itself. Matthew 24:37 “But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.” So that we have not only a precedent, but we also have an event that we can associate with the new thing that the Lord will be doing, for whatever it is that the Lord will be doing, it will be a sign that precedes His return to the earth. Matthew 24:29-30 “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.” Jesus gives us insight as to what the things that will radically change the human paradigm of the cosmos entails. There are three heavens mentioned in the history of the creation: first there is the heaven above, also known as the third heaven and Paradise, the seat of God’s rule over the universe. Then there is the second heaven, also known as the waters, below and the underworld, where all the fallen angels reside. Then there is the first heaven, also called the firmament, which has at its center planet earth, the habitation of the human race. If we read carefully what Jesus said, the stars will fall from heaven, singular, is because Revelation tells us that the stars represent angels, Revelation 1:20 “...The seven stars are the angels…” In Matthew’s case they represent the fallen angels which are thrown out of the second heaven to the earth. Then Jesus adds that the powers of the heavens, plural, will be shaken, which now includes the visible heaven that encompasses the earth, which is also called the firmament and heaven. And that is where the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, singular, when The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light and it is what causes all of the tribes of the earth to mourn as they see Jesus coming to the earth riding on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. How will the human race respond to the infusion of wicked non-human creatures upon our earthly plane? If that is not a new thing, then I do not know what is. What was that you said? You do not believe that something like that will ever happen here on the earth? Revelation 9:1-6 “Then the fifth angel sounded: and I saw a star (angel) fallen from heaven to the earth. To him was given the key to the bottomless pit (the under world). And he opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. So the sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit. Then out of the smoke locusts came upon the earth. And to them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. They were commanded not to harm the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. And they were not given authority to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man. In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will desire to die, and death will flee from them.” I do believe that the rapture would have already taken place by the time that the bottomless pit is opened, but the sign of the Son of Man is something that we will witness from our earthly perch before the rapture takes place, so that we need to ask ourselves, can our faith stand the revelation of such awesome and fearful wonders? Matthew 24:31 “And He will send His angels (after the sign of the Son of Man appears in heaven) with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.” Keep looking up! Previous Next Home

ATONEMENT The purpose of this teaching is to explain the biblical meaning and power of atonement, revealing how Christ’s sacrifice as High Priest covered sin and established a model for believers to follow. It aims to show that Christians are called to fulfill their own priestly responsibilities—interceding, making spiritual sacrifices, and covering others through compassion and prayer—so that we may walk in authority, love, and reconciliation until Christ returns as King. < Back ATONEMENT Minister Lisa Kane September 4, 2022 Objective: The purpose of this teaching is to explain the biblical meaning and power of atonement, revealing how Christ’s sacrifice as High Priest covered sin and established a model for believers to follow. It aims to show that Christians are called to fulfill their own priestly responsibilities—interceding, making spiritual sacrifices, and covering others through compassion and prayer—so that we may walk in authority, love, and reconciliation until Christ returns as King. Synopsis: In this message, Lisa Kane explores the deep spiritual truth of atonement through the lens of Proverbs 16:6, Hebrews, Exodus, and other key scriptures. She explains that atonement means “to cover” and traces its Hebrew roots, connecting it to the imagery of oil and pitch—both protective coverings and sources of empowerment. Christ, in His first coming, fulfilled His role as High Priest by atoning for humanity’s sins, and believers are called to imitate Him in priestly duties before entering their royal inheritance with Him at His second coming. Lisa emphasizes that being a priest means interceding for those who are ignorant of sin, offering compassion rather than condemnation, and making spiritual sacrifices such as laying down hatred, gossip, and unforgiveness. She draws parallels to Aaron’s priesthood, the anointing oil, and the process of refinement, showing how God equips believers with both power (fuel) and protection (covering). The message challenges listeners to take responsibility for their households, workplaces, and communities by making atonement through prayer, love, and intercession. By doing so, Christians build eternal rewards on the foundation of Christ and prepare with confidence for His return as King. The teaching closes with a call to embrace our priestly role daily, walking in humility, authority, and the covering of Christ’s sacrifice. Inspired Teaching: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kane and I'm recording this on Saturday, September 4th, 2022. And this message is called Atonement. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we bless this message. We thank you for your blessing on it. Let it nourish our spirits and our minds. Let it feed us. Let us receive, believe, apply, and walk in your word, Father God. and let us hear and live this revelation, Father God, in the glorious, wonderful name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Let's go to our opening scripture. Here we are going to be looking at Proverbs. Proverbs 16:6. Now, I want you to see that I have the same scripture here written twice. One from the New King James Version and one from the King James version. So, the New King James Version says it like this. In mercy and truth, atonement is provided for iniquity, and by the fear of the Lord, one departs from evil. And then the King James version says, by mercy and truth, iniquity is purged, and by the fear of the Lord, men depart from evil. All right. So, let's get a basic understanding of atonement here because when you think of that word, it's like, do you really understand what it means? So atonement is is paying for the sins. It it is a covering against the sins. Let's look at the definition of it here in the Strongs dictionary in the Hebrew. It it's number H3722. It's kafar is how you say it or close to that. Don't take my word for that saying. But it's a primitive root and it means to cover. And look at this specifically with bitamin. And we're going to get to bitamin in just a minute. And then of course figuratively to expedate or condone, to plate or cancel, appease, make atonement, cleanse, disinol, forgive, be merciful, pacify, pardon. Look at this word to pitch. We're going to get to that in a moment. And purge, which is what we saw in the King James version, away, put off, and make reconciliation. So now you're kind of getting an understanding here. So, you know, when you look at what Jesus did and he redeemed us, he made atonement for us because he covered us for those who choose to believe in him. And that is how this goes. But now I want you to see and understand something here. Jesus, his first coming came to fulfill the word as a priest. Didn't come as a king, which kind of offput the the Israelites. They did not like that. They were expecting a king. Well, he's going to come back as a king in his second coming, but his first coming was as a priest. He needed to deal with sin and that's exactly what he did. So now, if Jesus Christ did that and yet you read everything in the New Testament kind of tells you to be Christlike, does this mean we have to be a priest before we can be a king or a queen? Well, yeah. And if we're going to rule after the thousand-year millennium or in that time period that Revelation talks about, again, you can go check out those scriptures yourself, then that means we have to fulfill our priestly duties just like Christ did. This is where the the power of atonement comes in. And and you guys are going to get this. This is an awesome revelation. I want you to see this. So let's take a look at the foundation of the scriptures of why we need to be priestly here. 1 Peter 2:5, you also as living stones are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. Okay. So let's define your spiritual house. What is your responsibility? So if you're the one male, female, doesn't matter. There were priestesses and priests, okay? and they were in the Israelites. So this is this is not just designated for male or female. But if you're the one spending time with God and which we all should be doing, but not all does, but if you are doing that, you have a responsibility to those around you, your area. You see, Jesus came back as a priest for the entire world. We don't have to do it for the entire world. We just need to do it for what we're responsible for, which is in my case, it's my household. It is my workplace. Oh, we're gonna get into some very sensitive stuff here because how many of us are not crazy about our bosses. Anyways, so you kind of get this idea of what your responsibility is as a priest now, which means we've got to change something on the inside. So, there's atonement that's going to take place here, and you're going to see how this works and applies. Very powerful. I love this message. This a good message. Hebrews 5, we're going to read verses 1-4. For every high priest taken from among men is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins. Again, this all has to do with sin. We have all fallen short of the glory of God. We have all sinned. And that includes us who need to be priestly, which included Aaron who became priests, who was called by God. And by the way, we're called by God. anyone who's coming into this, God is calling us to be that priestly individual to take up our responsibility for our area. So, let's continue on here. Verse two, he can have compassion on those who are ignorant and going astray. That's the priest. You see, if you're seeing someone living in sin, co-orker, family member, whomever, you have the responsibility to what? have compassion on them because they're ignorant. They don't know they haven't come into the glory of God like we have. So that is a responsibility. Look at this. Since he himself is also subject to weakness, we are subject even priestly. So Aaron had to do it too. Look at let's continue on with the scriptures. Because of this he is required as uh as for the people. so also for himself to offer sacrifices for sins. And no man takes his honor to himself, but he was called by God just as Aaron was. So it's an exact replica of what Aaron was like taking on that priestly responsibility. Now, this is going to get very interesting. So let's continue on. Let's look at some more scripture here. Exodus 29:1A. And again, we're dealing with Aaron and what he's called to do. pieces and this is what you shall do to them to hollow them for ministering to me as priests. Now, I am not going to go into every detail of a priest and what a priest does. We're just going to be talking about atonement today. You are more than welcome to go read those scriptures and learn more of what the priestly duties are. So, I stopped here the first half of verse one there. Now, let's continue on with the next set of scriptures because now we're going to continue where the atonement is in verse 7. Look at this. Hebrew or excuse me, Exodus 29:7. and you shall take the anointing oil, pour it on his head, and anoint him. Okay, now that I've laid some foundational scriptures, I want you to see something. So, what a priest does is he makes atonement for those who are ignorant. But he also declares another priest. Now, let's talk about the anointing oil and what this does because remember what the definition is. And you know what? It's worth going back and looking at that screenshot that that screen of the definition because I think once you see this you it's going to blow your mind away. So a primitive roof to cover specifically with bitamin. Okay. Oil crude oil you know and there is a huge attack on the industry right now about climate change and using dirty oil. By the way if oil works and oil is powerful it works. There are dirty jobs out there. So you know it works. um why, you know, they're against oil is just beyond me. And and of course they think, well, you know, there's not going to be enough fossil fuels to last for a century. Well, and that is in regards to Yeah, but if you read the scriptures, the scriptures tell us that this world's coming to an end. We don't need it to last forever. And so, you have to understand that. Okay. But anyways, crude oil has a process to it. So, you have oil in itself, but it really I mean, it's there. It's crude. That's oil. But if you refine oil, you get two parts. Now there's that number two. Two always means choice or direction. Spiritual meaning you can go the spiritual direction or you can go the physical direction. If you have any dreams that have to deal with the number two or two paths, two bridges to anything. It is always a choice that you have to make and it can be spiritual or physical. That's what the number two means. So oil splits into two parts. Now you have the part where it becomes gasoline. And the more you refine it, by the way, the more powerful gasoline becomes. And what is gasoline? It's fuel for your car. Well, in the spiritual, it's fuel for your power and authority. It goes poof. It is the air. It is the numa. It is your power and authority that goes forth because the anointing oil got poured on you. And what happens when you get refined by God? You go through that pressure. You go through the stress. You sweat it out. You're having a hard time. It's refining and it's doing two things. It's giving you the power and the authority because you're learning mentally, spiritually what the power of God is. But then it makes a second part called the bitamin. The bitamin is the part that is the viscous, the pitch. Kind of like Noah's arc. You had to put the pitch in there. You had to put the pitch in anything. What does pitch do? It's a covering and it makes it waterproof. Oh, this is getting really good. I want you to see now when the enemy tries to attack you, the rain, the the the thunderstorms, the the season of torment, it comes to attack, but it washes right off of you because you got the covering of the anointing oil on you with your power and authority that you can move forward and whatever the enemy does, it just slicks right off of you because you got the viscus over you, the pitch, the tar, whatever it may be. You can't see it in the spirit, but you know it's there because the enemy can't stick his arrows in you. They can't stick. Oh, do you see this? Do you see what the power and the authority you have? And this is as a priest. Oh, this this is very, very, very powerful stuff. I want you to see this. I really want you guys to get this. So, now let's take a look at what this priest does. Leviticus 16:32. And the priest who is anointed and consecrated to minister as priest in his father's place shall make atonement. Put on the linen clothes, the holy garments. Again, you can go read the rest of the scriptures of how, you know, to get here to even preach this message. You know, as a priest, priestess, I come in, I cleanse myself, I take my shower, wash my face, do up my hair, I cling my my table here. I get everything prepared and ready because I need to be clean when I come into the presence of the Lord to teach the word of God to make atonement. I am trying to teach you how to repent and come out of your sins by sharing the word of God. Now look at this in the spiritual sense. Okay? So, if you're responsible for your household and you're responsible for your co-workers and anyone around in your area, whatever you have taken on that responsibility for, if you go out preaching on the street corners, you've got that street corner, that is your responsibility. These are your areas. What you do is you need to make atonement. Well, how do you do that? Okay, so atonement is where you intercede. Now, when a priest would go into, this is prior to Christ's coming, he would go into the Holy of Holies, he would have a string tied around his foot because if he didn't come in right, the Lord took his life instantly and they'd pull his body out. This is how serious this is. So, be very serious. So, you got to have the right heart. So, first you need to humble yourself. So, uh, if you read 1 Corinthians 13 talks about doing everything with love. If you've got a hatred toward anybody that you're responsible for, you need to take care of that. And and you know what? Just simply start saying the words and say, "Lord, I need help. I hate this person, but I want to love them." And then start saying, "I love you. I love you. I love you." And what happens is you get that humility going into your heart and your mind and you start to change on the inside because you're allowing the Holy Spirit to change you. So now when you're facing a situation in work where you question people and their motives and what they're doing, they may have equal uh evil, wicked plots against you. Remember, we don't fight against flesh and blood, but we fight against principalities, powers of the air, and evil evil, wicked plots, okay? We get to fight against that. We don't know it sometimes, but we see things. They're telltale signs. But instead of bringing those telltale signs to service by talking about it, gossiping about it, or what is so and so up to? He's just an idiot. You see, when you start saying things that you're cursing the situation and you're making it worse for yourself. Instead, come into the presence of the Lord in your secret place and make atonement for their ignorance and the sin that they're committing that they don't even know. Because hell is not for everybody. Hell is for the devil. But even if you hate that person and you wish them hell sometimes, you've got to realize that's not for them and it is your responsibility to atone for them. So, but he did you go into the presence of the Lord and you said, "Lord, I'm coming in as my priestly duty and I'm asking you to forgive them of their sins and I forgive them of their sins as well. I know I have the anointing oil on me. I know that I have the power and the authority to say that because I'm called by you and I have my priestly responsibilities to do this. And not only am I called, I know I'm covered by the vitamin process that is there, the viscous. And that means there those enemies that are doing that cannot stick doing what they're doing. And I know Lord and I speak and I ask for divine intervention and I ask that you come in and help them come out of their ignorance. Now do you see the difference here now? Instead of cursing them, you're blessing the situation. And what does that do to you? That comes back to you, me, and it changes the situation. I had done this. I can't remember it was last Monday night or last Tuesday night when I got this revelation and the next day was just an unbelievable day. You know, I can't go into the details because I don't want to name names and all the circumstances and situation, but I can say that I saw God move and I was like, "Wow, Lord." So, this this works. This is a powerful thing. So, let's continue on here. Hebrews uh 9:11. But Christ came as high priest of the good things to come with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands that is not of this creation. Again, it comes down to what would Jesus do? Jesus did it first. He went to the cross and died on the cross for our sins. Even for those who didn't know him and were continuing to hate and curse him. Even those that are standing there, you know, sounding like dogs going off if you read Psalm. And you you'll see that Christ did it anyways. You see that humility? And this is what a priest does. It It's challenging, but this is something that you need to do. Let's continue on to verse 26 here in Hebrews 29 or Hebrews 9. He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world, but now once at the end of the ages, he has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. It's a sacrifice. You're sacrificing your hatred. And notice what Paul is talking about here. He's talking about how many times Jesus had to go to the cross once. He didn't have to go multiple times. Whereas Levitic Aaron and the old days every year had to have the day of atonement. They had to do this for the nation of Israel. Once a year you had to bring in a bull and sacrifice the bull. Well, here now Jesus did it once. He did it and it tore the veil. So now there's no holy of holies where a priest goes into anymore. So now as a spiritual matter and as a Christlike person who spends time with God taking up your priestly responsibilities what do you do you sacrifice your hatred your curses your gossip and you say Lord I'm blessing this and I'm speaking atonement speaking on behalf of them because they're ignorant and they're walking in sin and they don't even know and I'm asking you for divine intervention and I'm telling you the Lord moves and it takes faith. It takes faith but that sacrifice is what gets things started. Now let's look at the verse 27 and 28 of uh Hebrews 9. And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment. So Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many to those who eagerly wait for him. He will appear a second time apart from sin for salvation. Now notice he's coming a second time apart from sin. He's coming a second time to be king. So you see the difference here. So right now in this moment because he has not come back a second time. We need to take up our priestly duties and make our sacrifice. Now they did it once a year. The Israelites I say do it every day if you can. You know it we're doing dealing with spiritual matters and the enemy is getting more and more vicious right now. Especially as we're in this end times. Christ is coming back and he's going to be the king which means we will move into our royal duties with him in the heavenly but here for now we have our priestly duties and our priestly responsibilities to those to those ignorant in sin. So what does that mean? Look at first John 2:28. And now little children abide in him that when he appears we may have confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming. You take up your responsibility. You've got the confidence to say, "I know my Christ, my king is coming. I know that because I'm dealing with spiritual matter in the priestly things right now." Amen. Amen. Look at this. 1 Corinthians 3:11-15. For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. And keep in mind, all of this is founded on what Jesus has done. This is what Jesus did to deal with the fall of man. Remember, first Adam sinned. Man fell. Now Jesus came and redeemed. If Adam didn't exist, none of this would mean anything. But I'm promising you this. Adam and Eve were real. Read the book of Genesis. You You know what? That will tell you why things happen. why they they got said, you know, the devil was sitting there in the garden of Eden and it tells you about that in Ezekiel and he's watching God and Adam bond and God is interacting with Adam and he's in love with Adam. Th this tells you how much he loves us because it also shows what he did. He sent his son for us because of his love for us. And uh there there they are just bonding and the Lucifer is getting angrier and angrier and more bitter because he's like I'm the one who's made of perfection. You should be spending time with me, not that weak looking creature. And in fact, in his mind's like, you know what, God, you left. I'm going to go deceive these people. And he did. He was successful at that. And so man fell. But God didn't give up on us. And he didn't give us give up on us when the flood happened. and he still let eight survivors uh get through so that we could be here today. I know that you see a an evil world. It is full of darkness and you want to hate. I'm right there with you. But God says, "Listen, take up your priestly duties. Sacrifice your hatred. Sacrifice your gossip. Sacrifice it and let me deal with it spiritually." Oh, let's continue on with 1 Corinthians 53 here, verses 11-15. Verse 12. Now, if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw. Each one's work will become clear, for the day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire. And the fire will test each one's work of what sort it is. If anyone's work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. If anyone's work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved yet. So is through fire. We are building up our royalty in the afterlife. This is why once you die and you've not accepted Christ into your heart, it's too late. You've lost your opportunity. But the moment you ask Jesus Christ into your heart, and it only takes one time when you call upon the Lord, you shall be saved. He that and it says that in Joel and it says that in Romans. You call upon the name of the Lord, you shall be saved. Saved from the circumstance and saved for eternity. Now, some are going to make it and some are just going to barely make it is basically what Paul was saying. But those of us that take up our royal priesthood and we start building our foundation with that gold and the silver, you know, and when that fire, the burning comes through and we we're under that refinement, that burn. What survives the fire, what's left there won't be straw. It won't be hay, but it will be the gold and the silver, the metals, the metals that we're grabbing in the spiritual. Amen. And that is what our eternity will be. And so I beg you, take up your priesthood responsibility. Imagine if everyone had done that. I would imagine that our world would not be in the evil situation it is today. Of course, God is in control and we know that he is returning and that his prophecies have to be fulfilled. So, but here we are now learning this that revelation. But it is awesome because I can still affect my area and until he comes, I'm going to continue to grab his word, take it from the Holy Spirit and apply it to my life and to the responsible areas that I have. And I encourage you to do the same thing. take up your priestly your priestly duties and make your sacrifices unto the Lord and make atonement for those that you're responsible for whether you love them or not. But ask the Lord to show you the love because he loves them. And sometimes we wonder why do you love them, Lord? But he does. But he loves you, too. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we bless this message and we thank you for your blessing on it. We thank you for teaching us about atonement and our priestly responsibilities and duties, Father God. And I pray that we can have the strength to ask you and your Holy Spirit for help in overcoming the hatred and gossip and and to be the better blesser and the one that can make the atonement for those ignorant and walking in sin and they don't even realize it. We thank you for your revelation. We thank you for giving us that strength. And in the name of Jesus, we bless this message and we bless you. Amen. Amen. Amen. God bless you. I just couple quick announcements. Obviously, we were on vacation, so I skipped a twoe period in teaching. Now, last week, we were supposed to put up a message from the youth message, and my fault. I didn't charge the battery before going, and um I don't know how much of the message I got. So, we're not going to put that message up, but uh I will be teaching again in two weeks. And then at the end of September, we'll have another youth message and we will get that posted up because I promise you, I will charge those batteries and have it ready to go. God bless you and have a wonderful time and spend time with the Lord. Amen. Previous Next Home